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Frorn Otiora Bay to Waikawa the coast and inland scenery is much 

 the same, the cliffs being about one hundred feet high and very pre- 

 cipitous. The country inland falls from the top of the hills which 

 form the crater in a steep slope for about half a mile, it then spreads out 

 into a fairly level country, though it is cut up by small ravines, down which 

 the lava flowed on its road to the sea from the crater. The soil on the 

 bottom of these ravines is very good, and peaches, fern, tutu, etc., grow 

 luxuriantly. Off Waikawa Point is another pillar of basaltic rock, about 

 seventy feet high and two chains off shore — another sign of the encroach- 

 ment of the sea. In a ravine close by is the spring, a very small one, 

 which, with the little spring in Opo Bay before described, is all the natives 

 have to depend upon for their water supply. Close to the spring in ques- 

 tion are growing bananas, grapes, apples, figs, and peaches, also flax, all 

 doing well, the latter being cultivated. We next come to 



Omapu Bay. — This is another very pretty little open bay, with a 

 good sandy beach, and is one of the principal landing places. Inland 

 from here is a nice little flat, having a good pohutukawa bush grow- 

 ing upon it, one tree of which is the largest I have seen in New Zea- 

 land ; the whole of this flat has been under cultivation. At the east end of 

 the bay are the present cultivations of the natives, which extend across 

 from this bay to Opo Bay. Going round to Tokomata Point to Te Moreote- 

 maiterangi, the south-east point of Opo Bay, the coast is very rugged and 

 picturesque, the cliffs being about 200 feet high, overhung with fine old 

 pohutukawas ; the cliffs have reefs of obsidian in them, which at a distance 

 look like bronze ; on the top of them, and all over Otutawaroa Point up 

 to the settlement, the country has a park-like appearance, being in rough 

 native grass, dotted about with clumps of pohutukawa, and, with the patches 

 of native cultivations, looks very pretty. 



We have now made the circumference of the island, and arrived back at 

 our starting-place, Opo Bay. 



Tuhua, or Mayor Island, does not offer any very great attraction to the 

 ordinary tourist ; but to the geologist, student of nature, or artist, it is very 

 interesting. 



Art. LIV. — On the Establishment of a Grand Hotel and Sanatorium in the 

 Rotorua Distriet. By James Stewart, M.Inst.C.E. 

 [Read before the Auckland Institute, 21th October, 1884.] 

 The purpose of this paper is to endeavour to draw attention to what may 

 be done by the initiation on a grand scale of a combined sanatorium and 

 hotel for tourists in the Botorua District, comprising also the management 



