THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
MEMORY OF ITS DISCOVERER HONOURED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright San Francisoo, September 25 A festival celebrating Balboa's discovery of tho Pacific has been inaugurated. Wireless messages notified all Pacific vessels within a certain radius to dip their flags in honour of the explorer's memory. Vasco Jlunez Balboa, tho discoverer of the. Pacific Ocean, was a Spanish soldier who wont to America with an expedition. Ho first saw tho Pacific on September 25, 1513, his view being from a high mountain, which ho had. reached after considerable difficulty. PROBLEMS OF TO-DAY. ' Melbourne, September 26. Lord Emmott, Under-Secretary of Stato for the Colonies, and Chairman of the British Parliamentary Party, in a farewell interview said tliat ono of the tilings which impressed him most was the interest felt by all classes ill tho problems of the Pacific; also, tho high level of prosperity of the workers. It was, lie added, sincerely to be hoped that tho standard to which Australians wero accustomed would stand tho tost of bad times. He had been impressed by the sizo of tho Australian cities, whoso great growth suggested tho danger of slum conditions arising.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1866, 27 September 1913, Page 7
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190THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1866, 27 September 1913, Page 7
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