COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 62, 16 March 1915, Page 2

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

HUDDART PARKER PAYS FIVE PER CENT .DIViDEND.

Cnttft> Prerb Association. (Received 10.25 a.m.) Sydney, March 15. Huddard Parker's report for the year ended 31st December shows the net profits as £57,715, making the balance available £66,062. It is proposed to pay a dividend of 5 per cent, on ordinary shares.

FIRE AT BRISBANE HOTEL.

(Received 10.25 a.m.)

Brisbane, March 15

A fire damaged the Regatta Hotel. Several were injured through jumping from the third storey. A baby thrown thence was caught uninjured.

OBITUARY. (Received 10.25 a.m.) Melbourne, March 15. Obituary: Richard Raker, ex Minister of Customs;

SHIPPING. (Received 10.25 a.m.) Melbourne, March 15 Arrived: Kaituno from Kaipara.

EARLE HERMANN TRIAL. ' Sydney, Ma roll IS. The trial of Earle Hermann on three counts of forging and uttering promissory notes involving £17,391 has commenced. The Crown produced evidence that defendant had conducted company formation and managing investments. In April, 1914, Hermann discounted three promissory notes with Hermann Wallraff, manager of Renter's banking department, purporting to liave been sent and signed by a certain Triggs. a well-known grazer. Counsel stated that Triggs would swear that the documents did not represent transactions with him, and that the signatures were forgeries. Counsel for the defence argued that defendant had no knowledge of the promissory notes. He admitted that if lie had, then he must he guilty. He had knowledge that defendant had been • suffering from a violent type of epilepsy.