AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 9791, 17 March 1908, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

[By Electric; Tki.eok.u-ii—4."oovuioiit.j (I'kk I'ijcss Association.) Uc.eivod Marih 17, at 1.8 a.m. Sydney. March 16. Arrived Veddo. from Auckland. Sailed (7 p.m.)— Miowora. The Now Zealand athletes are passengers. The (.'alters' I'liiou, Seamen's Virion, and Cooks and Steward's Union have commenced a strike against the three coastal companies. Communication with Queensland is dislocated through the floods. Three miles of tolrgraph lines have been washed away and thousands of sheep and cattle are surrounded by flood waters at Hoggabri. where the downpour was the heaviest for 60 vears. Newcastle, March 16. Arrived—Wairnna, from Auckland. Received March 17. at 1.15 a.m. Melbourne, March 16. lVarson. the cyclist, Todc to Mellmurne from the Sydney l'ost Office in 57 hours 52 minutes —a record. Perth, March 16. In the match against West Austra'ia, Ibo Englishmen closed I heir Saturday with seven wickets down for 362. The score of West Australia in their second innings was seven, w.'-.kels for 265Howe (105) 'was the chief scorer. The match was drawn. [West Australia, in their first innings, made 256. and had therefore 159 to tlio good, with three wickets to fall.]