The Hot Lake District.

In treating of the Hot Lake District of the North Island, we will have to make frequent reference to The Southern Guide, by J. Chantrey Harris. This excellent work was published last year under the auspices of the Union S.S. Co., and the information contained therein is most reliable. Mr. Harris, an able journalist, was commissioned to make a thorough inspection of the Lake country, and report thereon, and the result is a very full and accurate description of that remarkable region. Travellers who wish to post themselves up in all the details connected with the Hot Lakes, can procure The Southern Guide at all booksellers.

We will now allow Mr. Harris to describe the trip from