GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.
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FIXED WHEAT PRICES.
(Rec. October 12, 9 p.m.) Sydney, October 12. In reply to queries respecting tho prico of tho incoming wheat crop the President of tho Food Commission stated tho Commission cannot fix tho prico until supply and demand are known; in any case they have no power to fix tho prico for outside of Now South Wales although ho did not see why they should neglect the interest of Australia and New Zealand. The Commission will respect bona-fide- transactions if wheat is bought at higher prices than aro fixed later. The Commission does not contemplate the seizure of holdings at declared price. "
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
(Rec. October 12, 9.20 p.m.) Melbourne, October 12. Harold Mathewson, aged 35, and Prissy .Warwick, aged 13, wore found dead in the scrub, at Mordialloc. Tho facts indicate a case of murder and suicide. Mathewson lodged at tho house of the girl's mother, and often took the girl and her sisters to the pictures and picnics. Tho position of the bodies point to tho probability that Mathewson shot tho girl with an automatic pistol and then turned tho iveapon on himself.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2279, 13 October 1914, Page 7
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