Beyond The Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 244, 23 March 1910, Page 3

Beyond The Dominion

ANGLO-JAPANESE EXHIBITION. London. Hundreds of Japanese are coming to the white city exhibition. The trip, including fares and hotel expenses in London for three weeks, will cost £IOO. GIFT TO THE COMMONWEALTH. London. Sir Geo. H. Reid has accepted Mr D. E. Alvess' gift to the Commonwealth of Gribble's "Our Golden Argosies." which was exhibited at the Academy in 1907. Possibly it will be hung in the Commonwealth Parliament. TASMANIAN AGENT - GENERALS' OFFICES. London. In view of the lease of the Tasmanian offices terminating in September, Mr McCall, Agent-General, conferred with Sir Geo. Reid as to. whether he would be able to accommodate Tasmania in the new Commonwealth buildings. The High Commissioner continued his inquiries as to likely premises, but it is imposisble to promise a definite arrangement at present. AEROPLANING IN AUSTRALIA. Melbourne. The first aerial flight in Australia has been accomplished by Houdini, a music-hall performer. A Voisin biplane, weighings 14001b, with a 68horse power petrol engine, was used. The trial took place at Diggers' Rest, a viliage near Melbourne. Houdini made three ascents. In the first he covered a mile in a little over a minute, at a height of 40ft; in the second he went up 100 ft, and remained in the air three minutes; in the third flight he covered three miles in a little over four minutes. The machine descended gracefully and gently to earth. ANGLO-SAXON CLUB. " London. The Anglo-Saxon Club's dinner was presided over by Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P., and Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for the Commonwealth, was a guest. Replying to the toast of "The Guest," Sir George Reid said that whatever the terms controlling the relation of the Australian navy or the navies of other Dominions to the British navy, the ships must be ready to find themselves as near the Empire's future Trafalgar as possible. He knew that was where the Australian ships would be. He had no fear for Britain while the people showed their ancestors' attributes. Sir George added: "It would be unwise to depend on a branch of the Anglo-Saxon race not in the Empire or a Home ally or friend with whom we have an understanding. Understandings are very good things, and should be cultivated, but we want something behind them. I do not know what an understanding could be worth, considering that even a treaty is worth little or nothing in emergency. Struggles between nations arc in one form or another inevitable. There is greater danger for us,'perhaps, in the laboratories of foreign countries than in their dockyards." NEW ZEALAND'S CRUISER. London. Speaking in the House of Commons Mr McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, said that New Zealand's cruiser would be an essential part of the Motherland's navy, manned by the Motherland, except as far as New Zealand was able to supply them. "Australians will man the Australian ship," he added, "but we are supplying those Australia is unable to furnish, but their pay will come from Australia."