COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12, 15 September 1913, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

[By Eleotbic Xeijsuraph—Copjtbight'J [United Press Association.] • (Received 9.4.0 a.m.) Brisbane, September 15. The second division of British Parliamentarians has gone to Victoria. Stephens' and Collins opinion is that Australia is a paradise for people desiring to go on the land. There may be a few poor in the big cities, but in the country there was no poverty at all. What is wanted is more men. Melbourne, September 15. The Richmond honorary magistrates passed a resolution that in view of his disloyal utterance, they refuse to occupy the bench with Mr Webber, the Laborite Mayor. Dr. Ramsay Webb, in his presidential address to the Medical Association, referred to the proposed scheme of national insurance. There was not evidently, he said, a widespread demand for the system, yet the demand was assumed as a matter of course. The medical profession, which had an intimate knowledge of the surroundings and home life among the working classes, must deny the - existence of°any considerahle number so destitute as justified the adoption of the scheme. Perth, September 15. A rich find of gold is reported sixty miles north of Meekatharra. It is said to be equal to anything yet discovered in Australia. Melbourne, September 14. Lord Dcnman, on Saturday, opened the first of a series of All-Australia exhibitions. .There was a varied and representative collection of Australian industries, which is considered the finest since the great exhibition of 1888.