THE GOVERNOR.
THE ISLANDS TRIP. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CnßiSTCHUitcir, Thursday. His Excellency the Governor (Lord Plunket) paid a short visit to the Exhibition to-day. Owing to a break in the Cook .Strait cable the Tutanekai, which is to convey Lord Plunket to the Chatham and other outlying islands, has been detained repairing the cable, and operations have been delayed owing to rough weather, the steamer having to take shelter in one of the sounds. As soon as the cable is repaired the Tutanekai will proceed* to the Bluff, where His Excellency will embark. Accompanying the Governor on his official visit will be Mr. H. C. Waterfield, private secretary; Captain Bingham, aide-de-camp; Mr. Justice Chapman; Professor Benham, of Otago University ; and Mr. E. R. Waite, curator of the Canterbury Museum. The Tutanekai will return to Lyttelton about February 11, and the Governor will preside ik a meeting of the Rhodes scholarship trustees at Wellington on February 15. He will afterwards go over the North Island Main Trunk line, and on March 12 will unveil the Marsden Cross at Russell.
His Excellency has been advised that Admiral Fawkes, with the Australian fleet, will visit New Zealand about the middle of April.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13395, 25 January 1907, Page 5
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