AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 September 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

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Price of ; Meat.

Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.

- '' ;i: i Sydney, September 3. The scarcity of fat stock has caused a substantial advance in, prices which are higher than for a long) time. Butchers have- propoitionally increaaed, the price of meat. ; ~ ! w the Metric System. The New Zealand loin and Mercantile agency innovation in ’ the metric system of weighing wool, is claimed to greatly simplify operations and saves labor.

The Railway Robbery. * Sydnxy, September 2. Samuel Trudgeon was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude lor robbery from a railway station. : Isfty pounds wire found inTrudgeon’s possession. It waahanded to the railway Commissioners to cover compensation paid to owner of stolen property. . The VrMk of the Alexa. The inquiry of the wreck Alexa opens , to-morrow. Murder and Robberies. Burglaries and robberies with violence **kre very rife in the city and suburbs lately. Yesterday two women were bailed up and threatened with a revolver. At Burwood another case occurred, where a man died from the result of garrotting in the city, the murder being committed for toe sake of a bottle of beer he was carrying. Fatal Kerosene Lamp Explosion. . t . . MaißOunxi, This Day. . Two inan nucombed to the injuries eoaaid.by the ngMoa of a- kerosene lamp. " v

Salvation Army. Commandant Mrs Booth was farewelled prior to her leaving for England. Returning Troops. Albany, This Day. Arrived Harlech Castle with large detachment of returning troopers including a number of New Zealanders.