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...draws a character not too unlike the maligned minister in "Rain" But he doesn't call him a Baptist. He might even be a Methodist or a--So you won't be able to laugh at his Baptistisms. Yet you might read the book anyway. It does not approach Forster's "Passage to India," but it is a very satisfying treatment of an unknown, if narrow, field...
Governor General Forster of Australia gave a ball for Admiral Coontz and officers of the Melbourne detachment of the fleet...
Parties without end were planned; Governor General Baron Forster announced a ball; others offered luncheons, dinners, dances, picnics, motoring parties, baseball games, fireworks, rifle contests. Admirals Coontz and S. S. Robinson will reciprocate with a reception and dance on the Pennsylvania, luncheons on the Seattle, dinners and dances on the California. The Seattle, flagship of the combined fleet, will also hold a party celebrating its 19th birthday. She is the oldest ship making the cruise...
...Melbourne, on the day following their arrival, 2,000 sailors paraded, and were reviewed from the steps of the Federal Parliament House by Governor General Forster, the Earl of Stradbroke and Admiral Coontz. It was reported that 150 spectators collapsed (although it was a mild day) either from excitement, or from long standing and going without lunch. The parade was halted at one point while sailors rescued spectators injured as a street canopy on which they were standing collapsed...
...famed Martha M. Mulvey; Rob Roy, collie; and Paul Pry (the report that Paul Pry, grown vicious, was about to be disposed of, seems to have been an unfounded libel). Not included in the party were Mrs. Jaffrey, Presidential housekeeper (on vacation) ; Wilson Jackson, master of pets; Rudolf Forster, executive clerk (on duty in Washington...