Australian Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 December 1913, Page 3

Australian Cables.

ELECTEIC TELEGRAPH—COFTXIGHT. [rEE PJtEIS ASSOCIATION.] TWENTY-EOUK HOURS' RACE. Sydney, This Day. Fifteen teams started in the twenty-four hours' race at ten o'clock last night. DAVIS CUP. The Davis Cup selectors have chosen the first instalment of the team to compete for the cup. It includes Brookes Wilding. The latter has been asked to cable if he is available for all matches wherever played. HUGE EIRE. Adelaide, This Day. A fire largely destroyed the works of Pingelly and Company, cabinetmakers and railway carriage builders, whose works cover a couple of acres. • The damage is estimated at between thirty and fifty thousand pounds sterling. Two horses were roasted to death. STEAMER AEIIIE. Melbourne, This Day. The steamer Ilford from Bunbury to Auckland witli a cargo of jarrah timber put into port Avith the bunker coal afire. The fire was discovered on Wednesday t'AA'o hundred miles south of Adelaide. The crew Avorking hard at the pumps managed to keep it in check. Several are suffering severely from the effects of the fumes. Tlie eroAv Avere unable to overcome the fire, and decided to put into Melbourne. It is still burning and it Avill probably be necessary to completely flood the bunkers. The fire is supposed to have , been caused by spontaneous combustion. STEAMEK DAMAGED. The steamer Indarra encountered a huge Av;f/e oft' the coast. It swept the decks and t.Avisted the buIAA-arks, also smashed the boats and doing a lot or other damage.