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...Zealand the U. S. fleet, landing at Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin and Port Lyttelton (Christ Church) in four divisions, paraded, was feted and feted again, gave entertainments in turn. It was the same story of gaiety as in the Australian ports (TiME...
...only U. S. warship that had ever visited Tasmania before was the corvette (wooden) Swatara, in 1874. Following the cruisers, the whole fleet sailed for New Zealand (Auckland and Wellington), where more entertainment was awaiting them. The whole visit was a triumph of goodwill...
...Wellington, capital of New Zealand, a controversy raged over the fluid content of the welcome to the visiting U. S. fleet. The Drys said it should be dry; the Wets were all for dispensing "the customary hospitality." The vexatious problem was disposed of by leaving it to the decision of the Admiral commanding the fleet...
...Wellington, N. Z., Prof. A. C. Gifford of the Hector Observatory is something of a cat. The lunar mice, he suggested last week, are meteors. Others have believed that the multitude of craters on the moon's surface are the chilly orifices of extinct volcanoes, mementoes of the aeons just after the moon, a molten fragment, was flung off from the earth's mass, arrested in the heavens by the pull of terrestrial gravity and started in its perpetual monthly swing. Prof. Gifford's contention is that, since the moon has no appreciable enveloping atmosphere, a meteor...
...pronounced eepre)-which the British Tommy called "Wipers"-and the Channel ports and helped to hold up the mighty advance of the German military machine. Marshal Ferdinand Foch has written of French: "In him Great Britain found a grand soldier. He kept his troops up to the level of Wellington." John Denton Pinkstone French was born in Kent of Irish parents. He began his career at an early age by joining the Navy, in which his father was a captain. Four years later, he transferred to the Army, joined the 19th Hussars. He rose steadily to the rank...