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Excerpt from Wellington
Hither, come hither, and rest, Here, where I stand at the harbour 's mouth Calling them in from the west. Past Pencarrow, past Barrett's Reef. An ugly line of black rocks, named from Dicky Barrett, therough, sturdy Whaler, who played a modest but important role in the early settlement of Port Nicholson, the steamer runs into smoother water. Seatoun and Karaka Bay, popular summer resorts of Wellington's citizens, lie to the left, with pretty bungalows giving a touch of colour to the bareness of the low hills. Rounding Point Halswell, where big guns are emplaced, guarded, and ready should occasion demand, to be fired by gunners of the New Zealand Permanent Artillery, the steamer crosses the northern end of Evans Bay.
The city is now in partial view, and comes into full sight as the vessel rounds Point Jerningham, and leaving Oriental Bay on the left, makes straight for her berth at the Queen's Wharf. At night the circling town lights provide a scene of fairy-like beauty. By day, it may be, the city is too often wreathed in smoke to afford a coup d'ceil as attractive as might be desired. Given, however, a clear day, with the Tinakori Hills, which shut in the city like some line of frowning battlements, free of mist or haze, and the spectacle from the steamer's deck is one which must surely impress the least imaginative mind. The splendid expanse of water, deep enough to allow of ocean-going vessels being brought right up to the wharves, into the very heart, as it were, of the city; the scores upon scores of steamers and craft of all kinds, which throng the wharves; the imposing ~rows 'of fine warehouses along the water-front; the snug, garden-embowered residences which crowd the lower slopes of the hills; the many evidences of a busy city life which present themselves as the visitor's vessel nears its berthing place - all combine to convey an impres sion of the importance and prosperity of the capital \of the Dominion.
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