OUR DREADNOUGHT.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 58, 4 March 1913, Page 6

OUR DREADNOUGHT.

7H": arrival at capeto^ CAPETOWN, Feb. 28. ! H.Mjs. New Zealand has arrived. , The Union G<wgKttwt»veniertainetJ the "Aiqn stt "DeGrooi®; Sfcbuiir.y Lord 1 Gladstone (Governdt-Gqneral) banquet** oflipers. A four days' has been act 'ranged. 1 '

livery New Zealander who cah get 1 down to the in the Do<inaiion will probably have a 'ehance of seeing the New Zealand Dreadnought m be-ng (stated the London correspondent .of the" 'Ptete'). The .official • ogramme, whioh provides for the New ' Zealand be ng detached imm the flag ■jf Rear-Admira! Lewfo Bayly ,ior the greater partof the year, lays .down the I route roughly fofc. thfc. outyara voyage The New Zealand v sit" will probably xmimence at Auckland, whence ths jtutleship will proceed round the ■Aorth Cape and down the West Coast of the North Island, calling at New Plymouth, H&wera, Pa tea, and any other place, where, there is a convenient roadstead and some amount >f population. She will look in at Nelson and then go down the West'Goastj showing off Westport, Etokitika, and continuing probablf - ght round Puysegttr P&iit to thfe Bluff. It is the intention, tajofek in at several of the Sounds, the iposl Eemarkabie visit suiely since the dayf of Cook. Oamara and Timaru will be included- in,-.the ports visited flnithe return, to Wellington by the East Coast, and the circumnavigation of the. two islands will be completed before the New Zealand leaves again for EuropeShe will, in short, be suiown practically wherever there is anyone to look at her, and the homeward route has not yet been stated, but in accordance with a recent pronouncement of the First Lord it) will probably be by wav of South America, where the British flag badly wants showing again in some strength. The German von der Tann has ploughed many seas,* notably in South America and. the West Indies, where nothing British better than a second-class cruiser has been seen; so the New Zealand will in all probability make up for this by calling at the Indies and possibly going on to Canada.