COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 2, 1 May 1915, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

itfDttbiEffS IN J PAPUA. Per Press : AUddbuxiON. (Received 10 a.m.) Sydney, May 1. Port Moresby reports that four native police ' and a European named Clark were niui'der6d by natives on the'Robinson river, Phpila. There are no details. i p l N.Z. TtfOß OP N.S.W. (Received 10 a.m.) 'Sydney, May 1. The League officials state that nothing definitely is known of the proposed New Zealand tour. They declare the visitors must come in June or not at all.

SYDNEY WO'OL SALES ON '/Monday. (Received 8 a.m.) Sydney, May 1. The wool sales resume on Monday, the freight difficulty having been settled. (Revived 10 a.m.) Sydney, May 1. In future the weekly wool offerings will be restricted to the tonnage available. \ MEAT BUTCHERS CUT EXES. (Received 9 a.m.) Sydney, May 1. Owing to the iheerased expenses, combined with the high wholesale price of meat, the' retail butchers are largely abandoning the delivery of meat. COLONIAL SUGAR COMPANY. (Received 9 a.m.) Sydney, May L The Premier submitted to the Commodities Board the Colonial Sugar Company’s letter pointing out that the available stocks of sugar in Australia would lie exhausted by August, and urging the necessity of importing from Java and elsewhere. The inability of the company to meet the emergency was owing to the company fixing such prices as to leave a loss of probably £7 per ton on imported sugar, The letter declares that the matter is of urgent importance.

FODDER' FROM AMERICA. (Received 10 a.m.) Melbourne, May 1. The State Goernment lias arranged to import twenty-three thousand tons of American, fodder. STATE INSURANCE. (n future all Government contracts \Vill provide for insurance against accident through the State insurance office, and not through a private company.