AUSTRALIA'S MESSAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 13, 3 June 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIA'S MESSAGE.

Melbourne, June 2. Tie Governor has cabled to the Secretaiy of State for the Colonies: "Will you convey to Canada. Australia's deepest sympathy with her sister Dominion and the relatives of those who perished in the terrible shipping disaster." AT'STRALIANS iiiSSIXli. liei'fived 2, 9.50 p.m. Quebec, ,lune 1. A Sydney resident named Quartly, and his wife and daughter, are believed to have been passengers by the Empress of Ireland. -\'o trace of them has been discovered, and the Canadian-Pacific I'aiiwa.v Company is unable to ascertain if they were aboard. TIIH ill 'ARTLYS ARK SAI'R. Jleeeived 12.0 a.m. Sydney, .Tune 2. Advices linve been received that, the Oiiarilys are safe in London. They had intended joining- the Empress of Ireland, ilmi tailed by an earlier steamer. I'ni'SIiYTKPJAX SYMPATHY. Christohuvch, Last Night. At this afternoon's special meeting of the Chrisitchurch Presbytery, the clerk (Rev. 0. Murray) referred to the sinking of the Empress of Ireland, and said that the great disaster that had occurred bad o fleeted some New Zealand homes. He moved—''That the Christehurch Presbytery records its deep sorrow at the loss of (he Empress of Ireland, and extends its profound sympathy to the relatives •f those who have been taken, and especially sympathises with the Salvation Army, which lost so many of its adherents." The motion was agreed to in Bilence, the members of the Preshrtsvy standing.