COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3, 3 January 1914, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY.

[By Electric Telegraph— Copyrightj [United Pkess Association.}

Sydney, January 2

At the official- luncheon of the Regatta Committee on board the Maunganui, at Newcastle, Mr Cannington, in toasting the Union Steam Ship Company, said that in 18*5 it owned only three steamers; to-day it owned 75, with a tonnage of 234,000. Mr Caiman Williams, in responding said the company’s steamers travelled three million miles last year, consuming 600,000 tons of coal. They carried three million tons of cargo, 250,000 passengers, and employed 4500 people on the vessels.

COMMONWEALTH REVENUE.

Melbourne, January 2

The Commonwealth Customs and excise revenue for the six months ended December 31 amounted 1 to £7,483,/46, a decrease of £466,493. r lhe postal revenue was £2,505,472,’ an increase of £153,673 as compared with the same period of the previous year.

FIRE AT A PRINTING OFFICE.

(Received 9.5 a.m.) Melbourne, January 3. The Asher Company’s printing works, the publishing offices of “Table Talk,” and “The Richmond Guardian” were gutted, the damage amounting to £6OOO.

A HEAT WAVE. Sydney, January 2. To-day was the hottest day of the season, the temperature being 961 deg. in the city. There are much higher records, inland. The heat wave is general throughout the Commonwealth. QUEENSLAND’S REVENUE. (Received 10.50 a.m.) '■ Brisbane, January 3. The Queensland revenue for the half year is £3.325,291, an increase of £247,724. The expenditure was £3,191,414, an increase of £292,586. COALS FROM NEWCASTLE. Newcastle, January 3. A total of 5.138,245 tons of coal was shipped in 1913, an increase of 233,369 tons. The. tonnage rates totalled £25,987.