COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 19, 14 September 1912, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

(P>y Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) vUnited Press Association.) (Received 10.50 a.m.) Sydney, September 11. Burglars entered the room of an invalid lady at Parramatta, threatened her with a knife and chloroformed her. The burglar extracted £2l from under the pillow and escaped. Lord Denman has notified that lie terminates his residence at Govern-

ment House next month and departs for Melbourne. The comet is now barely visible to the naked eye. Mr Wise has concluded his address in the Vend ease.

Mr Xoyes, editor of the Washington Star, who visited Sydney, in an interview, said that the United States expected if ever the time conies when danger threatens the Pacific—for instance if Japan should organise the Chinese and together they should come this way—that the people of Australia ami New Zealand would be with America as America would be with them. The time would come when China and Japan must find an outlet for their populations. The white race would have to be prepared for anything that may happen. It was in the interests of America and Australia to watch the Pacific. When Mr Bryce (British Ambassador) returns to Washington, the. little trouble over the Panama Canal would be overcome. The Daily Telegraph, in commenting on the Pill to re-admit Mr Meagher says: "Of the strange developments in politics lately, this is the most astonishing." The paper describes the Pill as an attempt to use political power to override and intimidate the law courts. Melbourne, September 14. At the inquest on the railway victims, the medical evidence showed that' Driver Campbell was suffering from neurasthenia and his eyesight had been affected to some extent.