AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 196, 17 August 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

_ I'Recelred 9 a.m.) LIEUTENANT PARi-R'S FLIGHT. BRISBANE, this day. Lieutenants Parer and Alclntosh nave arrived at Kockhainpton.—(A. and _\.Z.) TRUMPER MEMORIAL. SYDNEY, this day. A meeting of the -New South U ales .Cricket Association discussed the poor response to tuc appeal for the Victor Truinpcr memorial, only £180 having been subscribed 'since January. Mr. -#cl_lhone (the chairman) suggested that the public should consider Trumper's widow rather than the memorial. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) FEDERAL COAL RESERVE. | SYDNEY, August 10. A representative'of the Northern Collieries Association, giving evidence before the Federal • Sea Carriage Committee, which is inquiring into tne shipping of coal, urged the immediate utilisation of about 500,000 tons of coal owned by the Federal Government, and now lying at Newcastle, in order to relieve the grave shortage existing in Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, and Tasmania.— ; (A. and N.Z. Cable.) FARER'S FLIGHT. BRISBANE, August 16. Lieutenants Parer and Mcintosh, who are continuing their London-Darwin flight to Sydney, have left Longreach en route to Rockhampton.—(A. and N.Z.) * RAIN IN WHEAT BELT. MELBOURNE, August 16. General rains have been experienced in the wheat area. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)