COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 46, 24 October 1913, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

NO WET CANTEENS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association, j (Received 9.50 a.m.) Melbourne, October 23. Mr Millen announced that he had not the slightest intention of amending the Defence Act with a view to permitting liquor canteens at camps and on warships. j H.M.S. PSYCHE. Sydney, October 23. , i The Psyche, the "last ship of the J.mperial Fleet, has sailed for Auckland. She was given an enthusiastic farewell by the Australian Fleet. CLERICAL STIPENDS. Melbourne, October 22. The Anglican Synod *has amended the Patronage Act, to provide that if parishioners fail to make adequate provision for the maintenance of 'the church and the clergy of a parish, they shall lose the right to nominate an incumbent. The minimum stipend was fixed at £2OO with free house, or £250 without a house. DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED. The death sentence which was passed in August on William Parker, a surveyor, on a charge of wounding James Thomas Knox, acting town clerk of Footscray, with intent to murder, has been commuted to ten yearn' penal servitude. HEAT WAVE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, October 22. The heat has not yet abated. It affects the whole of the States. A number of country places record over a hundred degrees in the shade. A STEAMER FATALITY. Brisbane, October 22. "While a steamer from Suva was berthing at the wharf, a boat got under her discharge pipe and filled. Two seamen named Keogan and Home were drowned. TAXING LUXURIES. Melbourne, October 23. Speaking in the House, Mr Higgs moved in favor of a tax on theatre, race and dance tickets, the proceeds to go towards increasing the old age pensions from 10s to 12s Od, in view of the increased cost of living. Y.W.C.A. (Received 9*25 a.m.) Melbourne, October 24. At the triennial convention of the Young Women's Christian Association of Australasia Mrs Albert Kaye, of Christchurch, was elected a vicepresident. THE PRIMARY INDUSTRIES. Melbourne, October 24. Mr Groom, at a dinner under the auspices of the Victorian Chamber of Manufacturers, said the output of the primary industries of Australia in 1901 totalled £113,121,000, while in 1911 they totalled £1,346,000,000.