COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 January 1914, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

FIRE IN TIMBER YARD.

[Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright i [United Prkss ahrociation.! •. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, January 14. Fire destroyed Burns Company's timber yard at Pyrmont. The damage is heavy. PRINTERS ON STRIKE. Hobart, January 14. Another conference over the printing dispute proved futile.

LABOR AND CAPITAL CONFER.

.Melbourne, January 14. j

A conference of the Steamship Owners' Association and the Waferside Workers' Federation has opened to consider claims under the federation's new log, including a demand of 2s per hour for waterside workers. The meeting adjourned till Thursday to enable the employers to discuss the claims. Melbourne, January 14.

During its seven years existence, the Licenses Reduction Board closed 710 hotels, of which 80 per cent, wove in the metropolitan and urban cen-' tres. The sum of £311.952 in compensation was paid, and was met by contributions from the. remaining hotels.

A TRUE SOCIALIST.

Melbourne, January 14

Mr Thomas Cadley, a declared Socialist and owner of four cottages, died, and carried out his socialist ideas leaving three cottages to their occupiers, who also receive a share of the proceeds of the "sale of a cottage wherein Mr Cadley lived. The balance of the estate is distributed in legacies to friends. One tenant is a jeweller, lor whom Mi' Cadley chopped a supply of wood so as not to spoil his hands for fine work.

A DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE

Sydney, January 13

Another cyclone in the Tamworth ilistrict severely damaged property and crops. Numbers of buildings were either unroofed or destroyed.