U.S.A. FLEET.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1925, Page 3

U.S.A. FLEET.

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.] SYDNEY, July JO. The American fleet to-day wirelessed as follows:—The licet divides to-night off Gabo Head, one division then heading for Sydney, and the other l'or Melbourne. (By Radio.) BATTLESHIP SEATTLE, July JO. The special representative of the Australian Press Association reports:— The officers of the Elect whose wives are travelling to Australia by the liner Niagara have received advices by wireless from Suva indicating that tinwomen would not lie able to continue their journey from New Zealand owing to the waterside strike, and that it would lie necessary for them to lake* another steamer from Now Zealand, which would land them on JSth instead of July Jollt. This news was received with great regret, as it means that their short stay in Australia will he further reduced. Another wireless from the Seattle this morning gives the position of the Elect at noon Sunday as .bill miles from Port Philip, and (il)8 miles from Sydney. The weather was fine at the time of sending, and the sett. calm. The Fleet sighted the Pliysa. which was the first steamer that crossed the path of the Fleet since leaving Honolulu.

The message adds the correction that the Fleet will diiidc sixty miles off Gabo on Tuesday, not on Monday night.

MASTER TON RECEITION. AIASTERTON. Julv JO.

A public meeting was held to-night to arrange for the reception of the American sailors. 3JO of whom arc spending a day here cut August Rltli. Five days later of) officers will spend a day and a night as the guests ol the citizens. At a subsequent executive meeting, the matter ol supplying liquor at the public luncheon was discussed. Opinion was divided on the matter, but a resolution tlmt no liquor be provided either for the sailors or officers at any public function was carried without dissent.

W E LLINGTON APR AX 0 KAIE NTS AY ELLINGTON. July 21.

Admiral C'onntz in a letter to the Department of Internal Affairs expresses himself well pleased with the arrangements for entertaining the fleet, and congratulated the authorities on the. thoroughness of the information sent. The Admiral suggests that in connection with shore leave, advisory information to offers and men as to points of interest will be welcomed by the offend. The Government programme provides for this, as at Auckland and Wellington a bureau will be set 11] > near the wharves for the express purpose of giving stteli information ami similar facilities will Ire provided at Lyttelton and Dunedin. Arrangements will be made for a visit of large parties to Hamilton. Alnstertou, Napier, Palmerston North, and Wanganui. Successive batches will lie taken to Rotorua and some of them to Waitomo Caves.

TO WELCOME THE FLEET. •SYDNEY, July 21

A seaplane has gone two hundred miles to sea to welcome the American Fleet which is due to enter the Heads at 10.15 on Thursday morning. HOBBS. THE CRICKET WONDER. LONDON. July 20. There was a big shout when Hobbs cjunpletod bis 125th. century. The game was stopped for two minutes, the public cheering, lie Is now one short of W. (1. Grace’s record and needs two more to- beat the record of thirteen centuries in a season held by Fry, Hayward and Hendren.

MEN OVERBOARD. WELLINGTON. July 21. (By radio from special representative of the Australian Press As social ion, aboard the Seattle)

Admiral Coontx. in conversation, referring to the smoothness ol our flip from Honolulu commented on the fact that during the 1908 trip sixteen men went overboard, eight of whom were rescued. On this trip only three have gone overheard, and all were picked up. The loss of a man overboard from a warship at sea is'often unexpheable. Sometimes there is a broken lile line to give clue to the cause, but more often it remains one of the undecipheved mysteries of the sea.