EARLIER MESSAGES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1919, Page 5

EARLIER MESSAGES

WAS HAWKER SIGHTED? (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association!

London, May 24,

The Wireless Press states that the cable ship Faraday sighted the red light of an aei’oplane 60 degrees 28 minutes north, 30 degreesi .02 minutes west, in the early hours of Monday, roughly in a direct line midway between St. John’s and Valencia.

The Sopwith Company states tfiat Hawker did not carry red lights. What the Faraday saw may have been the flame from the engine’s cxhau.q. pipes.

CLCLONE IN MID-ATLANTIC,

Australian & N.Z Cable Association

The steamer Tactician, which picked up the Faraday’s wireless message states that shortly after the message was received the vessel? encountered a heavy cyclone. Other ships report 3 cyclone on Monday is mid-Atlantic.

DAILY MAIL PRIZE

DIVISION BETWEEN MISSING MEN’S NEXT OF KIN.

ANOTHER £IO,OOO OFFERED.

(Aust. k N.Z Cable Assn k Renter'

London, May 22.

While not abandoning hope of the survival of the missing airmen, the “Daily Mail” offers to divide the prize between Mrs Hawker and Mr Grieves’ rrsxt-o-kin. The paper offers a'nother £IO.OOO for the competition. Martinsyde has entered for the Australian flight.

FLIGHT T® AUSTRALIA

(Australian k N.Z. Cable Association

London, May 24.

Bert Hinkler, a native of Bundaberg, Queensland, who enlisted in September, 1014, in the Naval Air Service, and soon qualified as a pilot and saw much sendee on the Italian front, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and a commission. He was recently demobohsed. He now intends to fly to Australia, and hopes to do the journey in seventeeen days.