The s.s. Invercargill ran an excursion to the Maori Kaik and outside the Heads to Cape Saunders, carrying a full complement of passengers.
Leaving the Rattray Street wharf at 10am, she steamed down to the Kaik, where a number of picnickers were landed, and then steamed outside, where she was favoured with a smooth sea for her journey.
Picking up her Kaik passengers on the return journey, she returned to town about 5pm, one and all agreeing that the trip was one of the most enjoyable that has been made by this favourite boat.
The Maheno ran three trips down the harbour during the day.
On the first trip, at 9am, Macandrew's and Hinkley's jetties only were called at, but at 10.30am she steamed down Victoria Channel, going to Portobello direct, and thence to Broad Bay, Hinkley's, and Macandrew's, returning to Dunedin at 1pm.
Another trip was run at 2.30pm to all the places named, and on each trip she was a full ship.
The favourite ferry boats Waikana and Moerangi also ran trips all day between Dunedin, Macandrew's, Broad Bay, and Portobello, and on each trip carried the full complement of passengers.
• A somewhat remarkable phenomenon was to be observed at the Strath-Taieri A. and P. show at Middlemarch yesterday.
The air was full of what seemed to be a coarse white dust, dancing and shimmering in the sunshine, and, as the result of a gentle breeze, drifting slowly across the showground.
Investigation showed that the dust was really myriads of tiny active insects, best known to the harassed farmer under the name of turnip blight.
This scourge is at present very prevalent in the Taieri and Strath-Taieri districts, and when there is a warm sun and gentle breeze it rises off the more or less ruined turnip crops and drifts about in the manner described.
Just before the moon rose last evening a very fine display of the Aurora Australis was visible in the southern heavens.
From a line drawn between St Clair and Lawyer's Head it was particularly brilliant. - ODT, 29.3.1910.
