COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 20 May 1913, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

[Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright] {United Press Association.! Melbourne, May 19. The health authorities have oondemtved St Janies’ Church in Little Bourke street, Melbourne. li was the first church built,'dating as far hack as 1838. . . Sydney, May 19. f St. John’s Church, Parramatta, celebrated the centenary of the first ."Sunday School established in Australia. (Received 9.45 a.ra.) Sydney, May 20. The floods in the Hunter River dis- • /trict are receding, several I days must elapse before the lower parts of West Maitland will be cleared. Oakhampton .suffered the full ’ force of the flood.;} y The restoration of roads, fences, and embankments will involve a big expenditure in addition to the losses ;.o|f owners of property through wasltotyays and damage to crops. A public [meeting is td be held in Maitland tb deal with the sad plight. of many '• tbwn-people and others in poor 'circumstances who suffered by the . floods. Railway communication from Newcastle to Maitland lias been restored. Melbmirne, May 10. The police stoutly deny tha statements of Dr. Rontoiil, moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly' that white slave traffic is rampant in Melbourne. The Chief Commissioner declares that officers were lately specially detailed to inquire, and they reported that they could fiqd nothing wrong. He thought he could authoritatively state 1 that the traffic did not exist. Sydney, May 20. 1 James Martin, a resident of Hillgrote, was’ accidentally shot dead by his daughter, who picked up a loaded ' gun whidh her brother laid on the bed after returning from shooting. i " :