COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 45, 21 February 1913, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 9.45 a.m.) Melbourne, February 20. The nude body of a woman was found at Maloney’s Creek. The head, one arm, and two fingers were missing. (Sydney, February 20. Judgment was reserved in the appeal of Normand McLaurin against the Magistrate for fining him £25 and £320 costs for refusing to attend the Sugar Commission’s enquiry. The damages at Angliss’s lire amount to £2OOO. Sydney, February 21. The report of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company for the half year ended November shows that the net profit was £164,963. The liquid assets total £649,372. It is anticipated that iron and steel works thatfthe company is erecting at Newcastle will he nearing completion two years’ lienee. A team of ladies from a minature club, using .22 bore rifles easily boat a team of officers from the School of Musketry with service rifles at the 100 yards range at a four-inch bull’s .eye. ' The Hon. A. G. Carmichael has expended £9OOO in the purchase of a factory for the manufacture of furniture for State schools. A meeting of the Picture Showmen’s Association carried a strong protest against film amalgamation, which is an alleged attempt to prevent the purchase of films outside the amalgamation.