A doctor will accompany the steamer, and a string band has been engaged.
As the trip only extends over five days, Milford Sound will not be visited, but in order that passengers may be unable to utilise the time to the best advantage, the following itinerary has been arranged by the Hon T.
Mackenzie and Captain McDonald, the latter having an extended experience as master of the Waikare on many excursions to Fiordland: The Talune will leave Dunedin on April 8, and proceed direct to Doubtful Sound, visiting Crooked Arm, Smith Sound, Hall's Arm; from Doubtful Sound pass through Breaksea Sound, Acheron Passage, Wet Jacket Arm, and up Dusky Sound, anchoring in Supper Cove.
Preservation Inlet will be visited thence proceeding up Long Sound, leaving there for Dunedin direct, and arriving here on April 13.
• AUCKLAND: The New Zealand Marathon race from Howick to Auckland, a distance of 13 miles, run under the auspices of the Auckland Amateur Athletic Club, was decided here yesterday in the hottest of weather.
The event created tremendous interest, and should do much to revive amateur athletics in Auckland.
Of the 42 nominated 22 started, including M. Dickson and E. W. Shanahan (Christchurch), M. Mulcahy and F. Wilton (Wellington), S. W. Moore (Rakaia), W. Reay (Ballarat, Victoria), and W. Wilshaw (Manchester, England).
The road was dusty, with numbers of loose stones, and the presence of numerous vehicles on the road made running unpleasant.
The road was lined with thousands of people, while at the Domain, where the race finished, about 5000 were present.
Dickson, after leading for seven miles, laid down when still leading, finally finishing eighth.
Moore at about this stage was replaced by Hill, a college youth of 18, who went on and won by less than 100 yards from Moore, with L. J. Ormstein (Auckland) third, Rogers (Auckland) fourth, and Shanahan fifth.
• The first taxi-cab (motor) in Christchurch was running last Wednesday.
Its paces on trial were 12 to 14 miles an hour. - ODT, 9.3.1909.
