THE COMMONWEALTH.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16750, 4 January 1915, Page 8

THE COMMONWEALTH.

DEATHS FROM MALARIA

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright MELBOURNE, January 2.

Two able seamen, Charles Gardiner and Herbert Williams, died at Rabaul from malaria.

NEW YEAR. GREETINGS. MELBOURNE. January 2. New Year greetings were exchanged between the Governor-General, Sir R. C. Munro-Ferguson and the Australasian troops at Cairo.

A WAR FLAG. SYDNEY, January 2. The first war flag ever captured by Australia is now in the custody of the police.

DAY OF INTERCESSION. (Received January 4. 12.45 a.m.) LONDON. January 3

Intercession services were held today. The churches were crowded with earnest congregations. *

AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES.

MELBOURNE, January 3

Senator Pearce, replying to Mr Cook's references to the inadequacy of tho reinforcements, says that by the end of Januarv probably Australia will have sent 42,000 men. From 50,000 to 62.000 will lie sent if possible. General Birdwood cabled to Sir R. C. Munro-Ferguson: "I fully appreciate the honour of the command of a body of men second to none in the British Empire."