The absence of Stephens from America had evil results to the Fenians there. One party was for invading Canada, a project which Stephens had never favoured. No sooner was his back turned, than a party of Fenians actually crossed the Niagara river, occupied a fort, and defeated a force of Canadian volunteers. Just as in 1838, when the Canadians were in revolt, the United States Government had saved the position for Great Britain by enforcing the neutrality of their frontier, so now it acted a similar part, and put an end to what might have become a highly dangerous state of affairs. Stephens never reappeared, but the preparations he had started were continued. With the pathetic hero-worship of the Celt, the Irish peasantry were confident that their lost leader would return among them soon and lead them to victory. But one brief taste of prison discipline had been enough for this doughty champion, and he is believed to have spent the rest of his life abroad in comparative affluence, derived from the subscriptions collected from his dupes. [Illustration: _From a Photograph_} {_by Valentine & Sons, Dundee._ WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND. The first body of immigrants arrived at Port Nicholson in 1840. In the same year the whole of the islands were annexed by Great Britain, and Wellington and Auckland were founded. Constitutional government was conferred in 1853. In 1865 Wellington became the seat of government. The population of the islands in 1895 was 698,706; imports, £6,400,129; exports, £8,550,224.] In February 1867 the Government frustrated a Fenian plot to seize Chester Castle; there was an attempt at a general rising in Ireland, which ended in the loss of a few lives in harebrained and disconnected attacks on police barracks in Cork, Limerick, Louth, and elsewhere, and a number of American-Irish were arrested. Two of these prisoners were being conveyed across Manchester in a prison van, when it was suddenly attacked by a party of armed Fenians. A policeman was shot dead, the prisoners were rescued and were never recaptured. [Illustration: _From a Photograph_} {_by Valentine & Sons, Dundee._ THE PINK TERRACES, ROTOMAHANA, NEW ZEALAND. The water from the hot springs, on its way to Lake Rotomahana ("Warm Lake"), left a deposit which gradually assumed the forms shown in the illustration. The water was exquisitely blue; the terraces on one side of the lake were white, on the other a transparent pink. Both were completely destroyed in the great eruption of 1886.] [Illustration: _From a Photograph_} {_by Valentine & Sons, Dundee._ THE WHITE TERRACES, ROTOMAHANA, NEW ZEALAND.]