MISSED THE NIAGARA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 681, 5 June 1929, Page 15

MISSED THE NIAGARA

LUGGAGE AND OWNERS PART WAYS CHAGRIN OF TOURISTS So near—and yet so far. The Royal Mail liner Niagara, eu route from Auckland to Vancouver, and the intercolonial steamer Marama, en route from Sydney to Auckland, parsed each other off the Little Barrier yesterday afternnon. On one of the vessels were four passengers. On the other was their luggage. The grim chagrin of Miss If. Rae and Mr. A. J. Stewart, of Canada, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Woolf son. of Lie United States, can well be imagined, as they gazed longingly from the deck of the Marama at the other ocean giant quickly eating up the se.i and taking with her their personal effects. IT they have never realised it before, the American tourists must have realised then the truth of the old adage, “That time and tide wait for no man.” The tourists had planned to iransnip from the Marama at Auckland to the Niagara, and continue the voyage home. But the extra day that they had in Sydney as a result of this arrangement means that they will have to sojourn in New Zeaalnd «or at least two weeks. The travellers had shipped the main part of their luggage on the Vancuver steamer, and normally the Marama would have arrived in fort at Auckland in ample timo for them to join the Pacific mail steamer. As it happened, however, a northeasterly gale delayed the Sydney steamer by 12 hours, with the result that she arrived at Auckland at 7 o'clock last evening, instead of at 7 o’clock in the morning, and by that time the Niagara was already six hours on her way. The visitors lroni America v. ill have to remain at Auckland tor another month if they wish to connect with a mail steamer for Vancouver, but. if they prefer they may leave the country by mail steamer from Wellington for Ran Francisco.