AMERICAN TRANSPORT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2373, 14 December 1908, Page 5

AMERICAN TRANSPORT.

SUPPLIES FIIOM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. The American naval transport Glacier, which arrived at Sydney on Sunday (says a “Sydney Morning Herald” of last week), left the American fleet at Manila, loaded beef at Towns vile, and will ship coal, potatoes and meat at Sydney. More supplies will be taken on board at Auckland, and the Glacier will then proceed to Chili to meet the Southern Pacific squadron of the United States Navy. The Glacier is equipped with wireless telegraphic apparatus, and Commander Hogg is regarded as one of the wireless experts of the U.S. navy. He was chief officer of the Celtic, which traded here from Manila several years ago. According to advices recently received from America, the advertising now being conducted by the New South Wales Government in the United States is most opportune. American naval officers who visited Sydney after the departure of the fleet claim that their appreciation of the unbounded hospitality displayed by the Australians to the navy will have a great influence in inducing Congress to grant a subsidy for the American ships in the trans-Pacific trade. The officers and men of the battleship fleet have influence in all quarters—in fact, cadets at the Annapolis Naval Academy are nominated by different members of Congress. The officers and men accompanying the fleet sent hundreds of letters from Australia describing the country in glowing terms.