ARCADIA AFLOAT.
LADY ISLINGTON'S MARINE FARM.
From time to time wo hear of the won- '• derfnl conveniences that are now being provided on the latest and most up-to-dato liners which cross the Atlantic, but probably the attempt is not often mado to create a semblance of-country life oa tho foredeek as a contrast to the Piccadilly o? the 'midships promenade, as was the case on. the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Tnrakina, Which ar- > rived from London yesterday. The deck only needed to be turfed and the bulwarks fixed up with greenery in the form of a hedge to complete the illusion—Arcadia on tho high seas. Lady Islington brought her own. cow—a, very, nice kindlooking' Jersey—with her,.in order that 6he and her daughter could have fresh milk daily. The cow was looted after by a besmocked farm-hand, to tho enter- ; tainment of the sailors, who, it is alleged, talked of tho weather and the crops insiead of the gals ashore and "Yo, . heave ho"! The cow was not by any means alone, for it was on. speaking terms with a number of sheep in an adjacent pen, whilst the clucking of a number of fowls brought out by. Lady Islington lent life and rural homeliness to tho scene.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 905, 26 August 1910, Page 4
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208ARCADIA AFLOAT. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 905, 26 August 1910, Page 4
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