COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 9, 9 January 1913, Page 2

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

A SUDDEN DEATH. 'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Sydney, January 8. Mr Howell, late general manager in Sydney for Howard Smith, tonight dropped dead in the street. PURE FOOD COMMISSION. Sydney, January 8. The report of the Royal Commission on the question of pure foods and drugs states that the law thereon is generally regarded as satisfactory. It urges the necessity for a further interstate conference' with a view to bringing the laws of the various States into uniformity. CINEMATOGRAPHY COMBINE. Sydney, January 8. J. D. Williams, Wests, Spencer’s Pictures and other film importers have effected a working business arrangement under which every film firm k invited to join in an amalgamation. AN OLD WRECK. Sydney, January 8. Expert opinion states that the vessel reported to be stranded on the Liliou Reef is the tramp steamer Queen Christiana, wrecked eight or nine years ago. THE PYRMONT ROBBERY. Sydney, January 8. The police have arrested three boys in connection with the Pyrmont bank robbery. The oldest is eleven.