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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 75, 5 April 1913, Page 6

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VICTORIAN WHEAT YIELD. (Received 10.5 a.m.) Melbourne, April 5.Tho revised official estimate of the wheat yield is 26,223,101 bushels, average 12.58. This is 3,078,600 bushels ■ above pre-harvest estimate. Already seven million two hundred thousand bushels rae exported, and it is estimated that another ten million are exportable. RECIPROCITY WITH AUSTRALIA. Mr Tudor and Mr F. M. B. Fisher held a further conference on reciprocity. Both submitted lists of articles Avhereon they desired preference, and discussed them item by item. The views of both sides were noted for further reference. to the respective Governments. i Good progress was made. It is now found impossible for Messrs. Tudor and Fisher to confer with Mr Foster (Canadian Minister). The latter notified that he was unable to reach Melbourne before the end of the month, by which time when

Mr Fisher will have returned to New Zealand. CHINESE CONSPIRACY. Spargo (Customs officer), Hoyling (Chinese interpreter), and two Chinese (Heypoo and Hcgin) have been committed for trial on a charge of conspiracy in connection with the admission of the Chinese to the Commonwealth. A RECORD SEA DEPTH. Brisbane, April 5. Tho German survey steamer, Pianette, obtained a sea depth of 9780 metres off the Philippines, thus putting up a world’s record in the matter of depth. ' KILLED BY A STEAM CRANE. Perth, April 5. A man named Philpotts, while attending a steam crane, stumbled as the grip of the scoop descended, and ho was gripped by the body and swung in the air and crushed to death.