GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2348, 2 January 1915, Page 10

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright I 9 • '.-■•j . WHEAT FROM AUSTRALIA DELIVERIES TO .NEW* ZEALAND. Sydney, January 1. The Wheat Board has decided that an extra twopence per bushel may be paid for , hard wheat. ' Arrangements are complete for Australia to lend New Zealand fifty thousand bushels of wheat. Deliveries will commence next week. PRICE OF LIQUOR INCREASE' IN AUSTRALIA. . Sydney, January 1. •Mr. D. R. Hall, Minister for Justice, has decided on the following increases ill the wholesale prices for liquors:— Case. whisky,' ss. 6d., bulk 3s. 6d. per gallon. English ale, 255. per hogshead; other ales correspondingly. EXPORT OF WHEAT AND FARMERS' RIGHTS. Melbourne, January 1. v Mr. Wm. Hughes, Attorney-General, announced 'that,the Commonwealth intends to take definite action regarding New South Wales's prevention of the export of wheat to Victoria to uphold the farmers'.rights under.the Constitution.: FAT CATTLE EXCITED DEMAND. ■ ■ ■" Sydney, January 1. ■ There was an excited demand for fat cattle at.tlie Homebiish stock sales yostesday. Values generally were ruling higher than at any time since, the 1902 'drought, .when cattle was imported from New Zealand. . • PRICE OF TIMBER NOT TO BE ADVANCED. 1 Sydney, January 1. The timber merchants have, decided not to advance prices, but to reduce .t : her rate of discount. 1 STRIKE ENDED : COCKATOO DOCK DISPUTE. ' ■ Sydney, January 1. The Cockatoo Island Dock dispute has 'been settled, and the men resume work on Monday.. _ BATTERED TO DEATH ; ' i A MELBOURNE TRAGEDY. Melbourne, January 1. The body of a woman,, Lucy Gorman, 'was found in a house in Johnson Street, Richmond. She had apparently been battered' to death. The room was disordered, and the clothes were soaked with blood.' ' There is ho clue to the porpetrator. •• ;