AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3404, 7 February 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

MESSAGES FROM MARS.

AUSTRALIA Gr»:-'l.’=flNG THEM

SYDNEY, Feb. 6.

Wireless sitgnal-5. similar to the mysterious messages reported by Marconi, have beefi received at the Amalgamated Wireless Station at VVahroo-ngla. The signals repeat in Morse code the letter G, and appear to be under intelligent control.

A TERRIFIC CYCLONE. TOWNS COMPLETELY DESTROY. ED. Received 11.35 a..nT. BRISBANE, This Day.

} Latest advices from the‘ North state that Cairns received the full force of jthe cyclone from Monday night to ITuesday morning. During the night most of the residences on the waterfront were unroofed, the gale reaching the force speed of 100 miles an hour. Many gallant rescues were effected by the police ambulance. The damage in Cairns is now estimated at thirty-nine thousand .pounds. News from the back country makes the position more serious: than was at first anticipated. The town of Mt. Molloy, was almost totally destroyed, and hardwood forests were levelled to the ground. Many other towns suffered partial destruction, but so far only one death is reported, a scrubfeller being drowned in Russell river.

INTERNATIONAL TENN!S.' ENGLAND V. VICTORIA. .. Received 11.35 a.m. ' MELBOURNE, This Day.

..ln international tenms, England v. Vzctoria, .O’Hara ..Wood. ..defeated Be.-amish 6-3, 7-5; Kihgscote beat Wertheim 6-3, 6-o..Welthe.im and ‘H-awkes ag‘:;".nSt Kingscnte and Lowe the -g-fame is unfinished, the score st-.‘.n'ls 4-6, 8-6, 8-7.

BURNS PHIL}? SHIPPING.

QUITTING THE ISLAND TRADE.

Received 11.35 a.m

SYDNEY, this day

Burns Philp have announced that one steamer has been despatched direct from the Islands to England, and others are being chartered for the Islands and Eastern Trades. It is now likely that the whole_of the steamers of the Burns Philp Island Line will not again be put into eommission_

TOBACCO.

DECLARED A NECESSARY COMMODITY.

Received 11.35 am. SYDNEY, this day. A Government GFa.zette declares tobacco ro be a necessary commodity.

THE (‘DAL DISPUTE

WESTPORT, this day

A special Wellington message to the VV9Sfpol't Tim_es_ announces that a compulsory conference is to be held at Wellington nexfit Tuedsdayi. nregarding the coal question. There are to be four representatives from each. side. with Mr Massey chairnmn. ‘ HEAT WAVE BROKEN. SYDNEY, Feb. 6. The heat wave has broken and general rains have fallen in Riverina. and north coast districts.