COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 93, 14 December 1912, Page 8

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

MOUNT LVELL MINK, By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright (United Press Association.) Hobart :'• .vmbc: M The Lyell Disaster Enquiry Commission held us hi'st meeting at Queenstown. The Government and all the parties involved are represented. Counsel for the commissioners descended the mine under expert guidance, and inspected the workings.

’i hero wore evidences everywhere ol the destruction and desolation caused by the ravages of the fire.

HEAVY WEATHER. Sydney, December 13. A heavy blow and a rough sea prevail, and shipping is sheltering. Hie rain extended northwards, and there wore heavy falls. At Port Stephens over 7 in. fell. GENERAL ELECTION PROPHESIED. Mr. Beoby anticipates a general election about April. PAPUA. Melbourne, December 13. The Papuan report states that the only difficulty in the way of development of the territory is the scarcity if labour, though the extension of Government influence is continually increasing the area open for recruiting In spine districts the natives become so used to the white man’s luxuries that they regard labour for EuroDeans as a normal feature of existence, ['he supply of labour, however, is insufficient, and a form of racial despair, possibly induced by civilisation, has grown up in the shape of apathy or indifference to the perpetuation cf the race. The labour question is further complicated by the communistic system, which is noil-conducive to the material advancement of the natives.