COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 56, 30 October 1912, Page 3

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

- * J iw-'o! N.S.W. RETRENCHING. j ‘ ~ " U ' Sydney, October 29. The Harbour Trust baa discharged 300 of its employees owing to tire Government's shortage of funds necessitating retrenchment in public works. A CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER. Sydney, October 29. Horn was committed for sentence for the manslaughter of Foley by culpable negligence. AGAINST FLOGGING. Meloourne, October 29. A strong movement, supported by the churches and labour bodies, is afoot to delete Moore’s and McDonald’s floggings, on the ground that such methods are savage and repugnant. [A Melbourne cable received on October 22 stated that the sentences of Edward Macdonald, a labourer who was sentenced to death for a criminal assault on a girl aged ten, at Melbourne on September IS, and G. Moore, who murderously assaulted Mr .Syme on September 19, had been commuted to imprisonment for life, with periodical floggings.] OFF TO THE CUP! Sydney, October 30. The efflux to Melbourne to see the Cup has commenced, trains and steamers being overcrowded. JEWELLERY MYSTERY SOLVED. (Received 9.35 a.in.) Adelaide, October 30. The mystery of the jewellery robbery at Harris and Scarfe, when £IOOO worth was stolen, has been solved. Bert Isaacsen, the liftman, discovered at night on the premises, informed detectives where a portion of the missing jewellery, valued at £75, was concealed. He admitted ho had two accomplices. A WOMAN MURDERED. Fremantle, October 30. A French settler named Marius Martin, gave a neighbour a sealed note, stating that Mrs Martin had been murdered. The body was found in Martin’s house hacked about the head with a tomahawk. Martin is missing. NEW SOUTH WALES FRUIT. Sydney, October 30. A fruit famine is prevailing, and it is 20 years since fruit was so scarce. NORTH MT. LYELL MINE. Hobart, October 30. Vapour and fumes arc still issuing from North Mount Lyell mine, ana there is no apparent diminution of the

gases. Until a change comes it will be impossible vto attempt to recover the forty-two bodies.