THE GOVERNOR ON TOUR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 7

THE GOVERNOR ON TOUR.

I ■■r-~ —■« —y— ' A RAINY CRUISE. - His Excellency tho Governor,- whohasdiad 'an excellent: experience of ' New Zealand : drought 'during .'his! past'three-' months', stay' in the: rainless' North, must have revelled ,in the weather experienced .during his recont visit to - the West Coast Sounds, when anything ' but droughty weather was experi-'j eneed. '. -.'. . v.,,;, , : . According ;to a correspondent,.who writes under Saturday's'.date from the. Bluff,' ,tho Government steadier Tutanekai left that port at 8 a.m. on February 26, and steamed easily that day, anchoring .-at Northport for tho. night.,',! The .next day .broke clear: and calm, and . fishing lines were, soon, busy, over tho side, with baits various enough to tempt all the marine - tribo.' • The steamer 'remained there that 'night, but! weighed anchor at 5 a.m. on February 28,: and there was" more fishing off Pigeon Island and West Jacket Arm, where tho night was .spent. Tho Tutanekai was: away at daybreak on February 29, and spent tho day nosing' in and out of Doubtful,-Thompson, and Caswell Sounds., On Sunday, March -1. it rained incessantly; " Glorious ' Milford' 1 was visited on- Monday, March 2, and .trips wcro mado to tho great; tumbled waters that takes its name from its discovorer and only-resident I —Sutherland—tho steamer's launch being commissioned for i tho jaunt.;

On Tuesday (of* last week) a> party was mado up to-visit beautiful Lako Ada—beloved of the, nrtist-^and..on "Wednesday return visits wore; paid to Bligh and Dusky Sounds and Pigeon Island in very wot feather. So thick (lid the way become that shelter'had to bo sought in Dusky Sound. On Thursday: the return passage was! resumed to Northport, and Friday morning saw tho Governmont boat dovonring the leagues between that point and tho southermost town in the world. On her return from Stewart Island ''with the vice-regal party tho .Tutanekai was to lay a cable between Centre;lsland and,the mainland. '"!