THE MESSAGE FROM MRS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 February 1913, Page 5

THE MESSAGE FROM MRS.

xi, jl-1" startling developments in the direction of Mars are-reported to have been observed last night. The High School meteorological dep&i-t----ment reports that while investigating the wonderful Martian emanations, which reappeared soon after ]1 o clock, through, the rain-gauge, a, quick succession 'of tremendous flashes occurred, representing the discharge, of some huge electric ' gun. It is computed that the energy represented Iby these flashes,would be equivalent to that expended by the simultaneous discharge of a sufficient number oi 13.5 inch guns oi- the size and power of those on the super-Dreadnought Orion, to cover the whole of the surface of Marlborough if each were erected on end. After the commotion caused by these terrible, disturbances had subsided,,--the-signals of last Friday night re-appeared, and with some difficulty it was ascertained that our Martian friends were' trying to tell us that a company of Marxians— the exact number could not be made oat owing to their apparently having a different system of numerals from that in use" on earth—had just left for the earth, at the rate of 250,000. miles an hour, the enormous discharges which had occurred previously being the power by which they had been projected beyond the influence of gravitation en Mars. The object of the visitors is to visit the Garden Fete next Wednesday, although, judging by the rate at which they1; are. travelling, they, should reach'here somewhere about r*ext Saturday night. It is understood that the Spring Creek observatory will be able to detect the voyagers to-night or to-mor-row night if the weather is clear, while by Thursday or Friday they should be within wireless range of the earth, the conditions for wireless telegraphy in the ether being infinitely better than £hose in the atmosphere. Further reports are eagerly looked for by local "enthusiasts.