COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 56, 11 July 1913, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

AN AUSTRALIAN CARNIVAL. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Sydney, July 10. The Million Club has appointed George Goldie, a Sydney journalist, to organise the Australian carnival in London in 1915, A HANDSOME BEQUEST. A resident of Newtown suburb, who left an estate of over £3O,CuO, after providing for a home and an annuity for his widow for her lifetime and some small bequests, left the whole estate to ho invested in inalienable Government securities, the income going to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LOAN. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Adelaide, July 11. The Premier announced that he has floated a loan of £200,000, but declined to state the source or terms.

THE N.S.W. COUNTRY PARTY. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Sydney, July 11. The Farmers’ Conference resolved that any increases of salaries of the members of Parliament should be submitted to a referendum; that the Party' favored freedom of contract against the present system of day lajbor and preference to unionists. Mr Holnian (Premier) in an address to the conference, outlined the Government’s policy for developing the country. Because they had spent six millions on railway dovelopfnont, the Liberals were raising the cuckoo cry of “extravagance!” The only extravagance chargeable was the endeavor td overtake the neglected development of the past.

SALVAGE CLAIM SETTLED. (Received 10.40 a.m.) Perth, July 11. The Court ! awarded the salvors of the barque, Victor £450. They claimed two thousand. The vessel was valued at £3200.

SERIOUS FIRE

Brisbane, July 11

Fire destroyed the Chareville Hotel and four shops. Mrs Green and her two children were .burned, one of them seriously. The damage amounts' to £IO,OOO. , , j: