COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 51, 1 March 1913, Page 5

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GERMAN NEW GUINEA, By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Melbourne, February 28. A Melbournite who has returned j from a visit to German New Guinea reI fates a hitherto suppressed story of a native plot to massacre tlie German I male residents of Freidrich WiJhelms- ! hafen, numbering sixty, and the ap--1 portionment of tneir,wives and daugm j ters among thirteen chiefs. A local | chief informed the authorities. The ringleaders confessed, and have been deported, while the rest of the villagers have been sent to another island. THE FULTON MURDER. Sydney, February 28. The inquest on “Snowy” Fulton was resumed and again adjourned. A witness gave evidence that a man named Rut tell was mixed up in the riot. He rushed into a butcher’s shop and returned, and shortly afterwards Fulton was stabbed. After the inquest Buttell was arrested and remanded on a charge of murdering Fulton. HUDDART PARKER’S DIVIDEND. (Received 8.5 a.m.) Sydney, March 1, The Huddart Parker Proprietary have declared a dividend for the halfyear at the rate of 0 per cent per annum and a preference dividend of 8 per cent, on ordinary making with tho interim dividend an average of 7 per cent on ordinary shares for the year. BIG RISE IN BOOTS. Sydney, March 1. Tlie boot manufacturers increased the price from five to ten per cent to take effect immediately. The chief cause is the high price of hides and leather, which is a record for Australia, due mainly to the enormous increase in exports, which were valued at £450,000 in 1910, against £107,000 in 19j2. Moreover, the wages fixed by the' Wages Board award irfereased tlie earnings of female factory workers 12 i per cent. NORTH MOUNT LYELL MINE. (Received 9.15 a.m.) Hobart, March 1. The 850 ft. level in the North Mount Lyell mine is free of water and appears in the same order as before it was watered. \ Eighteen bodies were found in a good state of preservation, which was not expected to be the case.