OUR GIFT DREADNOUGHT.

Mataura Ensign, 24 April 1913, Page 4

OUR GIFT DREADNOUGHT.

THH *JIW ZEA LA Xl.)' SM<)VKJ 11: NTS MB CVITED I-H.KSB ASSOCIATION WELLINGTON, April 24. • H.M.s. New Ziaaad 1. ft Wolliimtoii ahortlv after eij.'iit o'clock this morning for Napier. On the trip the war./hin will indulge ! in torpedo ninnir;; ami practice. PRKPAKATIONS AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND. Airil 23. Great <'iiihusiii.''iu pri'va ! .(« in connection with t'ie visit of H..V. . \«.v Zealand. The caet-u:i ar:d of'' 1 li# wekomed by "the rort aut ■:-. id [will Ihei; be ;r',ven "a eivie v.vk«'".i . I A total eroVadituro of £IOOO is con- ' template*!' by the City Council, which ; made an appeal to the different sub!nrlifliL bodies for ".sse.iar.e, . So far : th-> to.LrH of PUi> Lisln-K 1-e-i >■<<•< ivod or promi.se.u from this source. | Ti-IK VISIT to Di;.\i:;>iN. Di'NKDiN, .\ ■•:-"! 24. T!v< IL'.rbor 15.•.'.■,; has i:;si. ,i.'-i;d th# ■':v.;a\ :v j.i:d nil im e<;:.sa\r to j roeeed io :'V.-; ~'(■ with the lato.*.:. chart* arid >.".:!i.r".j..T.-; :ii" i'.:.i\nK- in ti'i hop* v). i.ai-:; ii,';; ." r i-.t'ji ''::' iy to recon- ■ sidif i;is <Ji:oii.ion i:<>: d .omo in. LETTERS OF APPRECIATION. WELLINGTON, Aeril 24. Before leaving Wellington (.plain Halsoy, of R.li.s. New Zealand, sent a letter to Hon. H. 1). Hell (.Minister for Tntyrnal Affair:-) e.\p.v:*.in;>; t.ianks for the way the officers and men had beca received and looked alter in W» llingtion and' for the sympathetic and thorough manner in which everything; had been organised. Uu ai.s> greatly nppr<.. itL'd the pa.ieni- and courteous "beiiavioua of the general public oft board ship. iir Ball also *e:it a b'tu-- ♦•;> (V'ir-iiii Ma!:•/,-.v en bo; all -,i the G-ownueeiU to t!;e hip's <oi-"o •. v our fii.'i.ika to tlic i!.:; for tin cviinpU rh- y had affo; !-1 thn pw>p'- I thw .'i 1 munion. by t: ■ r <■•.!) lu.l d,: >ig thtt i of the hai.le <niisor in Wellington and of the efi > c .->f training ami diseiplino in his M:vj. sty's service.'" There bad bc-.'ii no breach of o"dor ami tii trouble to m;>r the p'ca-Tjre of th»» i eii-ixtn'!.