COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 33, 13 June 1913, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

'imw t-it •" neo)„ »'■ n PROGRESSIVE N.S.Wi |Bt Emotoio Tblkobaph—Copyright 1 tUmiRD Press Association.] (Received 9.40 a.m.) , Sydney, June 13. Official statistics disclose that last .year the factories in New South Wales increased from 5039 to 5159. The wages -paid were over eleven to twelve million, «n increase of H million. There was an Increase in the number of employees by 6883. UNIVERSAL PENNY POSTAGE. ■ Sir Henniker Heaton, interviewed. *aid he was sure universal penny postage would he achieved before very long, and he was hopeful of seeing pehny-a-word cables in his day. WEATHER AND SHIPPING. The weather has eased, but the sea k still rough. Shipping had a bad time, many vessels sheltering.

THE TIES OF EMPIRE. The Herald,, editorially, discussing trade and the Empire, says that Imperial relationship founded the race, not made'it; if it had founded the trade and concerned itself about common profit instead of the race and common ideal, there would be no Empire. Trade interests sometimes coincide with racial interests and sometimes cut right across thefn, but the Empire no more depends on trade for the binding principle than does "a family. METHODIST CONFERENCE. a Brisbane, June 13. The Triennial Australasian Methodist Conference has opened. The Rev. Dr. Brown, of Sydney, was chosen president. Dr. Youngman, referring to Separation from New Zealand, skid there had been no suggestion of fraction or of a desire to escape irksome spiritual or ecclesiastical bondage.