The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-08-28

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bers Of the parliaments some distance
down the bay The reception tiotilla
will accompany the battleships up the
bay to the anchorage Then during
the afternoon the formal official calls
win be paid by the officers Of the
feet and bp authorities on shore.
The great day of reception will be
Monday. The admiral and his prin-
cipal officers viii be landed at st.
Kilda pie. 1t has been found Inn
possible to provide for such great
undertaking as the landing Of all the
men at st. Kilda would mean and the
men are welcomed at the pier. and
all will then take their places in car
riages, which will drive in procession
along st. Kilda road. In the mean
time the sailors from the fleet will
have been brought from Port Mel
bourne by train, and drawn up in
Alexandria avenue and the Yarra-
bank roads, together with all the Vic
torian troops who will take part in
the march through the city.
The procession thus formed will
march through the city, following the
same route as was followed by the
procession which marked the royal
visit in 1901
At the, exhibition luncheon will be
provided for officers and men. BY the
time that is over 1t will be about
four o'clock in the afternoon, and the
days proceedings will be concluded.
For the officers in the evening there
will be dinner, given most probably
in the Melbourne Town Hall. This
will be set function, at which. all
the welcoming representatives and a
great number of guests will be pres
ent, as well as the officers of the feet
In order to provide amusements for
the men the theater arrangements
which were at first contemplated for
Saturday night will be made on Mon
day night. Large sections of the
house at every theater will be re-
served, and the American naval uni
form will obtain admittance at any
theater.
4 On one day during the fleets stay
here there will be naval and military
sports, in which the men of the Am
erican and British fleets will compete.
Mr.. J. G. Williamson, formerly presi-
dent of the Victorian Baseball League,
hav given trophy for competition
between the Australian representa-
tives and the American fleet in the
baseball match, to be played on the
Melbourne cricket ground on sSeptem-
Der 3.
An allotment of days for common
wealth and state entertainments re-
spectively has been agreed upon The
commonwealth is to have Saturday
Sunday, Monday and Thursday, while
the state and civic authorities will
have Tuesday, Wednesday and Fri
day.
Large sums of money have been ap
propriated for the entertainment OF
the visitors and individuals have an
nounced that they are going to spend
liberal sums in decorating theil
homes.
There has been no incident in Mel
bourne since the Australian tour o.
the Duke and Duchess of York, which
has been productive of so much in
terest as the forthcoming visit of tn,
fleet. By force of circumstances Mel
; bourne is the temporary seat of gov
eminent, until that day when tn
dreams of ideal federalists shall hay
been realized and there shall hav
arisen far away from civilization, il
the heart Of the Australian forest, tina
federal capital which is to outd
Washington in its splendor and
forever lasting tribute to the jea
ousies OF interstate politicians.
III The city, the seventh of the BIRTHS
Empire, with 100000 Inhabitants, date
back only as far as 1885, so that sh
is not yet seyenty-five years old. He
| history, since the day when job
/ Bateman. having sailed his littl
schooner five miles up the River va
ra, was prevented from exploring flu
thsr by rapids and on account Of bein
blocked. wrote in his diary, 9TH
| win be a place for village" hs
been one Of marvellous progress. 81
has had her setbacks. such as II
exodus to the gold fields in 1851, ii
financial crash in 1891 and warrior
periods Of drought, when agricultur
| II losses reacted ON the CITY,. but Al