COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 44, 23 February 1915, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

THE WHEAT "CRAB.”

United Press Association.

Melbourne, February 22

The Inter-State Commission delivered judgment in the Commonwealth Government’s application for an injunction to restrain the New South Wales Government for interfering with Inter-State trade in regard to the seizure of wheat under the Wheat Acquisition Act. The Commission, by two to one, upheld the Commonwealth plaint, Mr Piddington, chairman of the Commission, forming tbe minority.

FIRM ACTION IN SOUTH AUS«

TRALIA.

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Adelaide, February 23

Owing to inability to secure seed wheat to meet the requirements of applications for grain, the Fodder Board seized 300,000 bushels belong,ing to 165 farmers. It is expected that more will be seized unless farmers place their wheat stocks on the .markets. GROUND FOR DIVORCE. Sydney, February* 22, Professor E. P. Scott obtained a rule nisi in the divorce of his wife, a daughter of Mrs Annie Besant, oh the ground that she had changed her religion to that of Eoman Catholic, which at times she followed as an as-; cetic. She went to England, and refused to rejoin him. ;