Pursuit of Pleasure Up torn Date.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4816, 4 September 1894, Page 3

Pursuit of Pleasure Up torn Date.

Nowadays (remarks the Westminster Guxetle) tho common folk make journeys that were barely dreamt of even by well-to-do peoplo of 50 years ago. In the year of grac'o 1844 to havo prophesied that in 189'1 in something like 12 hours you could havo gone from London bridgo across the Chaunol to Boulogne and back to ' London would have been to bo | laughed at as a lunatic; and to have suggested that snch a journey could be carried out for half a guinea would havo meant confinement innr afiylum. But, given time, and the pursuit of pleasure as incentive, il will be discovered that the ago oi miracles is not at an end, In sue! matters tho Palace Steamers people are the latest innovation. On Satnr ) day June 23, it was a perfect day foi a sea voyage, their now. steamer Lt Marguerite made her trial trip iron ' London to Boulogne and back on tin same day, Passengers left Fen church-streot station at 9,5 a.m, anc joined tho vessel at Tilbury; thi run from thcro was to Margate,|ari( on to Boulogno, tho - latter boiiij , reached at about 4 o'clock, Om hour's stay was allowed.at ,tln French port during which tim frieadly greetings passed botweei ? the men of ofh'co-the ..Mayor o Bp'ulogneandhisfellowcitizens-am '' the officialsandrepresentatiycsof th Palace Steamers Company. As t tho vessol, La Marguerite has bee: planned after the model of tho lai ! est big ocean passenger boats, He '. decks are spacipns, her. s'alpons ar roomy, -and. are' most. : tastofull . decorated and upholstered, and' th ' ship (she has cost some £80,000) i ,J what she appertains to be-a fldal . irtg palace fof the greater iriultitndi ! It goes without saying that; she he rs been 1 ably manned; and iii tlie chef ;y depavtment,bothatlunchandatdii e-' ner, the dißhes presentod to the gou: ti mands wero as excellent as the ' were varied. La. Marguerite hi

been built by tlio well-knowa. fair■field:Sliipbuilclingv,Qompany, and her carrying accommodation maybe | gauged from the fact that she, is 330 feet in length betweon 'tho' porpen-dicularsjiracl!4ofootinJn-enth; lias an extre'mebroadth of 73ft, with'a moulded depth from.tho upper deck of 21ft Gin, while the hull is of steol throughput, \