THE PROPCSED EXCURSION TO NORFOLK ISLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7222, 10 January 1885, Page 5

THE PROPCSED EXCURSION TO NORFOLK ISLAND.

We understand that over a dozen gentlemen have booked their passage* for the proposed excursion trip to Norfolk Island, and that several others have promised to do so. A good many persons have also been making enquiries. The Northern Steamship Company have fixed the minimum at thirty passengers, although the steamer Clansman could comfortably accommodate fifty, so as to prevent the company from sustaining any loss by the trip. Auckland people have a weakness for leaving everything to the last, instead of taking time by the forelock, and that may be the reason why a larger number have not yet made their arrangements. It is absolutely necessary that they should early in the week make up their minds, as if the minimum is made up the Clansman will have to be docked and overhauled. Those who visited Norfolk Island in the excursion trip by the mission schooner Southern Cross, some four years ago, speak in the most enthusiastic terms of their reminiscences of the island and of their visit. The whole time occupied by the proposed trip would not exceed a week—about the time a few years ago it took to pay a visit to Waikato, Whangarei, .or the Bay of Islands—and would simply be a small extension of the New Year holidays to business and professional men, before again getting their noses to the grindstone for ISB3. It is proposed to start on Monday evening, the 19th instant, getting to JNorfolk Island on Thursday. Two clear days would be devoted to seeing everything c interest on the island, which can be easily .on as it is only seven miles long by three in breadth— the township of the Pitcairn is andera, the headquarters of the Melanesian mission, and the whaling station at Cascade j start for home would be effacted on Saturday, ; reaching Auckland on Monday «^ C £ noo nn' m time the Clansman to take 5« .« j ? U i an ß* The present month r 4 » e most favourable period in »mnn»£ r or M?g the trip, so as to secure smooth seas and line weather