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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 277, 23 March 1889, Page 3

A telegram received from Botorua on Mon. day states The visitors at Scott’s Bungalow, WaioUpu Valley, were fortunate in witnessfa? a most peculiar phenomenon this morning. Lake Botowhero, which is of a beautiful green tint, completely changed its appearance. One-half had turned to a bright reddish yellow, the other remaining in its vivid green shades. The division of colour wa* most clear and distinct. Another little lake jn close proximity, usually of a eoffee-and-fflilk colour, changed to an apple green in one portion. Of Botowhero that had evidently Men an upheaval of the bright red day which forms the bed and shores of this lake, and this seems also to have affected the other, but how it should have turned green when its bed is of a Asleep chrome colour, is a mystery. I That- most disappointing monetary sinkF jole, the South Pacific Petroleum Company’s I Well at Poverty Bay, has at last wearied the patience of the Gisborne shareholders, and ' they have turned on Mr W. Weaver, the manager.— Napier Telegraph. a The N. Z. Herald has a word or two to say about the Dunedin ImpositionA merely

local exhibition will be turned to political purprvee, as many a road, railway, or bridge ha* been in the same way for the last fifteen Or slxteew ycpn. Practice has made Sir Harry facile prinrtepe in these matters, but there Is « boldness and originality about the Dunedin grant), while speaking retrenchment on all Aides, which are not to he surpassed. ylhe system which places an unlimited power of local expenditure la the hands of the General Government of the colony is responsible for these feats, which would be otherwise lees practicable. The wont of it Is that the Assembly seems eoaeciou* of the utterly helpless to remove It. Then n-het be something very rotten la the system, mid an overwhelming * hea th ” *'