25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 99, 20 January 1933, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Training in the Moonlight

(From “The Dominion,” January 20, 1908.)

The Countess, in her run to Mahanga Bay yesterday afternoon, carried a large number of visitors to the “At Home” of the Wellington Engineers who are encamped in that delightful spot undergoing their annual training. Several red-coated volunteers were dotted among the summer-dressed crowd on board, and the No. 1 Battalion Band sent the strains of bright music across the water. Fifty-five men out of a total of fifty-eight are in camp and Lieutenant Fitzgerald is in charge So far good work has been accomplished, mostly at night in the moonlight.

Although Admiral Evans has refrained from firing at imaginary enemies during fogs, his progress to the Pacific with the American licet is attracting almost as much excited attention as the famous voyage of Admiral Rozhjestvensky. No point of resemblance between the cruise of the Baltic fleet and the voyage of the American battleships to Pacific waters has been dreamed of up to the present, but a cable message from New York which we print to-day suggests a rather disturbing parallelism between the two events. “Washington dispatches.” so the message runs, “report that there is 'uneasiness owing to sensational reports regarding tlio distribution of the Japanese fleet.”

“Rotorua is becoming a very beautiful place, and it bids fair to become one of the finest towns in New Zealand.” Such is the flattering tribute paid to the Dominion’s wonderland by Sir Robert Stout, who arrived in Auckland from Rotorua on Saturday after spending the past few weeks in the district. “The place.” he slud, “has been very full. The weather was magnificent, and everybody -seemed to be having a joyous time. I never saw Rotorua so crowded before. The boarding-houses are on the increase, and they all appear to he doing well.”

I Madame Tetrazzini, a new prima 1 donna, had a brilliant triumph at New York in “.Violetta,” She secured twelve recalls.