Hot Springs.

Mr. Gillies, referring to the water taken from the neighbourhood of Wangape, said the spring was so hot that eggs could be boiled in it.

Captain Hutton gave a description of the spring in question. It was about four miles from Lake Wangape, in the Waikato There were several hot-springs close together, but this was the largest of them, being about fifteen yards long by five yards broad, and it was very deep. The water was so hot that it was impossible to bear the hand in it for more than a second; and, on one occasion, when he was in company with others in the neighbourhood of this spring, having caught a pig for dinner, they fastened it with flax and threw it into the spring, and, on taking it out, it was perfectly scalded, and they had no difficulty in scraping the hair off. The temperature of the spring was from 160° to 200° at the very least. The water itself was almost tasteless; he had drank it himself. He thought it was the carbonate of sodium which gave it the re-action referred to. What its effects would be as a mineral spring he could not say; but it was easy of access, was very prettily situated, and was not above fifty miles from Auckland, and he trusted that some day it would be called into use.

Mr. Gillies said, with regard to the hot-springs at Mahurangi, when he was there last year, he took samples of water from the three springs,