Several waterfalls and beautiful streams are within easy reach of the town, and the long white roads, stretching along beneath arcades of trees, invite one to roam endlessly on to any one of the hundred places which nature has made pleasing to the appreciative eye.
A BEAUTIFUL PLACE
I have travelled so much of late, that views and places have formed themselves into a continuous whole, and there lingers with me, a general impression of a prosperous country, dotted by towns which are the home of an energetic and pleasant-mannered people.
Above all this, I remember one place which is so beautiful, that if I were to give the description it merits, you would perhaps think that I was falling into the ways of the guide-book writer.
Within a few miles of Whangarei there is an estate that reminds me in some way of the Domain of Arnheim of which Poe writes. The late Mr. Holman, who was the genius responsible for this enviable Eden, has chosen a spot to which nature has been most liberal. Through the valley, yielding flowers and fruit, runs a stream; its upper course in placid mood, between willow-lined banks, and over time-smoothed stones.
Masses of pink hydrangea sent their wealth of colour to the water’s edge, and a vista of trees walled in a waterway of exquisite beauty.
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