COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 44, 22 October 1913, Page 3

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

THE WHARPARILLA TRAGEDY. CBy Eleotrio Telegraph—Coptrightl [United Press Association.] Melbourne, .October 22. The jury decided that Freeman, the dumb boy who murdered another boy named Anderson, was.unable to plead, and ordered that he be detained ia gaol during the Governor's pleasure. WOMEN AND THE CHURCH. The;Anglican Synod, by a majority of 123, conferred church franchise on women. An amendment of the, Assemblies Act was carried enabling woman to obtain the right to vote as lty representatives of the Synod. Ar< -l bishop Clarke said this was a gr.-.i new departure in church life and would influence the whole of the commUnk;, THE COST OF LIVING. Melbourne. Ocetober 22. A comparison of the cost of living in the Arbitration Court placed Omes highest, Sydney second, Melbourne third, Ballaraf Bendigo and Easteun Tmasnaia fourth. THE PEPPER-SLOAN CASE. (Received 9.45 a.m.) , Sydney, October 22. Henry Pepper was acquitted of the charge of murdering Ethel Sloan, with whom he had been living for eight days,prior to her death by stryehnine. Witnesses for the defence testified that on the woman feeing "questiorfod she replied that she had taken strychnine in mistake for salts, and .also that she had been heard to declare her intention to commit suicide. COLONIAL MEET INC.' (Received 9.46* a.fn j Melbourne, October 21. In reply to a question as to what , steps the Government proposed in connection with the recent inquiry into the affairs of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, the. Premier intimated that the Attorney-General had directed that steps, should he taken with a view to the prosecution of the petitioners. .The. Government did net consider it wise to ask Parliament to pass a resolution' endorsing inspections. The cost of the inquiry, £3OIO, would be borne by the Government. ' i ( ' -,; ,-„-■ I 570 ■">>-■■'■'' ■ -•■:d : -■''■! i VALPARAISO-NEWCASTLE, ;•" ' ; :^.-:SERVI-C'E f '; ; f ■;''.:.;, .."> , ( Sydney, • October' 21. \ ' it is. ..believed,, tjmt arrangeinents have, been wade t lfoi; 'the ,l ; ine : ofstealers, to [leave, jy*dpkrajsc^ev>rv t'hree iwftek\' for.; Newc/ist|e { The jhails frtim- Buenos, jAyres, g s%]%. to , ■Valparaiso,.,. ( , , .... \,. Jf . Jod'l ,rc .i -iri: i» til WM tikUL l ci ... THE (i qLYMPJ,9 f RAMES, , A'public'meeting'will b e , beld shortly to inaugurate a, movement to raise" £IO,OOO. ,tp. secure representation of Australasia in the "Olympic games at Berlin. . , •,.: .■ •" . , j fH&BAJN.EVWgftL, f . ? Slo m°W.ilP 2 n o j fi jMjthe third o^th^.iqi^R^rs^^^ of wool w&s-;genera}, '^ermanmnd,,Ereiloh u r J Greasy .peached I4i'd jaitf jscoured,B64i*f>iJ.;...,ruri-j r<U Sydney, October 21. '■ " The weather has been exceptiotoally hot'for so early one degrees was registered in the city, ' the highest October reading sinoe 1910. ; NEW FLEET FOR AUSTRALIA, j Confirmation has been received fcha' \ |the'vessels of the Hamburg- | line are entering the Australian; ti-adc ; The first of the fleet of cargo-carrier wfll reach Sydney at the end of th m present year or early next year. . , LABOR PREMIERS PROMIBE. Mr W. A. Holman, Premier of New South Wales, informed a ' deputation that a bridge connecting Sydney and North Sydney wbulcty 06, built if the Labor Party is returned to power. THE FEDERAL CAPITAL. (Received 8.30 a.m..) The House passed a vote of £285,000 for the Federal Capital.