THE AMERICAN FLEET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 216, 5 September 1908, Page 2

THE AMERICAN FLEET.

COMMONWEALTH REVIEW. THURSDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Melbourne, September 4. Fifteen thousand men of the Unamomvculth forces and 2500 Americans participated in the review yesterday. The weather was fine. There were 50,000 spectators. The Commonwealth Government provided a dinner last night at the Exhibition Building for 3000 men of the lleet. Only seven men entered an appea ranee. In connection with this and several other functions the visitors have shown a preference of entertaining themselves in their own way to heing entertained. A rillc mutch between a fleet team and a Melbourne rifle club team, fifteen men aside, resulted: Americans 1414, Melbourne 1379. Corporal Far(juharson, of the battleship Connecticut, won the challenge cup presented by New Zealand riflemen. A bandsmau belonging to the battleship Vermont fell under a moving train and was killed. Another of tha Vermont's crew fell out of a moving train and .had his skull frocturcd.

THE "FRISCO SERVICE. Melbourne, September 4. Admiral Sperry, addressing a gathering of journalists, urged the great importance of developing trade routes. It was a great misfortune, he said, that steam communication between Ntw Zealand, Australia and the west coast of America had been abandoned. To a certain extent the trouble seemed to lie in lack of traffic, which wanted fostering. Admiral Sperry gives high praise to the cadet systems of New Zealand and Australia. . • < '<» v