COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1914, Page 3

COMMON WEALTH CABLES.

NEW STAMP ISSUES,

[By ElkOtbio teL EQH Al*n --Ci‘PTßlOfit [United Pbebb Association*l

Melbourne, March 10

Mr Wynne lias approved of a design for the new sixpenny stamp copied from an exhibit sent by Blamires Young. It will be printed in light blue with a kookaburra as the central figure. The new half-penny stamp will be colored green with a black sv.au in the centre. The 2UI will bo dark blue and similar in design to the new penny issue. MOUNT MORGAN MINE. Brisbane, March 10. The Mount Morgan Company has declared a dividend of Is per share, payable on the first of April, absorbing £50,000. THE NEW HEBRIDES. Melbourne, March 10. An unofficial estimate of the French interests in the New Hebrides places them at under half-a-million.

FIRE AT MELBOURNE.

Melbourne, March 10. ' A fire badly gutted the Covent Garden Cafe and Albany Hotel. The damage i# estimated at £IO,OOO. PANAMA EXHIBITION. Sydney, March 10. The cost of Australia’s representation at the Panama Exhibition will be £63,000. The Commonwealth finds £20,000, the States contributing the remainder on a population basis.