So it's widely announced in the Sydney Press today that the CAGE team starts moving off tomorrow, the Captain and Lasseter with the Thornycroft and valuable equipment first, then Blakeley and Sutherland will set off Monday next week and Coote and Taylor following, dribs and drabs indeed, last minute decision they all decide to leave on Wednesday, what a shambles, if they stayed out of politics and got on with prospecting the Expedition would have been away weeks ago.

And John Bailey makes an extraordinary faux pas in announcing to the press that the expedition has nothing to fear from the Aboriginals as the men will be armed to the teeth and prepared for anything. 

Terry and mates still travelling and all’s well. 

Amy Johnson leaves Fremantle today.

The Government has started the process of obfustication over naming the newly discovered centralian lake after Donald MacKay, this could take months.