COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 88, 9 December 1912, Page 8

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

— t> THE SYDNEY FIRE. Sydney, December 8. The damage at Harrington’s amounts to £25,000. The firm was largely insured. The brigade did splendid work, and managed to save the adjoining promises with only slight damage. DISHOP JULIUS ON ECONOMICS. Adelaide, December 8. The Commonwealth Club gave a luncheon to Bishop Julius. In the course of an address dealing with the economic conditions in England, Bishop Julius said that his recent visit showed enormous changes for the bet ter in London. Since he left, the dens in the East End and elsewhere had been replaced by great buildings and broad streets, but the conditions of the people were really no better. Two things were fdreed on his inordinate luxury on the one hand, and the miserable poverty on the other. The luxury was of the American typo, mostly ostentatious, and a provocative to every kind of bitterness. Poverty was the same as ever, only a ’great deal more bitter than formerly. He expected that the time would come when it would be difficult to secure the interference of the military in industrial strikes. Little shops and small institutions had come to an end in England, and the great concerns were swiftly taking the bread out of the mouths of the smaller tradesmen.