Its situation is commanding, and the sea-view is superb.

There are charming drives all about, and by courtesy of friends we had opportunity to enjoy them.

From the grassy crater-summit of Mount Eden one's eye ranges over a grand sweep and variety of scenery--forests clothed in luxuriant foliage, rolling green fields, conflagrations of flowers, receding and dimming stretches of green plain, broken by lofty and symmetrical old craters--then the blue bays twinkling and sparkling away into the dreamy distances where the mountains loom spiritual in their veils of haze.
It is from Auckland that one goes to Rotorua, the region of the renowned hot lakes and geysers--one of the chief wonders of New Zealand; but I was not well enough to make the trip.

The government has a sanitorium there, and everything is comfortable for the tourist and the invalid.

The government's official physician is almost over-cautious in his estimates of the efficacy of the baths, when he is talking about rheumatism, gout, paralysis, and such things; but when he is talking about the effectiveness of the waters in eradicating the whisky-habit, he seems to have no reserves.