COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 39, 15 October 1915, Page 3

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

[Unitku Punss Association.] ( a.m.) Sidney, October In. j At the annual meeting ol the Employes’ Federation, the president, reviewing the war. said the employers’ desire was*to remain absolutely quiescent, their energies tor the problems arising out of the struggle and assisting in its prosecution to a successful issue, but, war or no war. they were up against the same old problems. The Arbitration Court stated that strikers appeared to tie indefensible. A section of the industrial community •laborately set itself to minimise the productive capacity ol labor and oi machinery so as to bring the output in many important industries down from twenty to fifty per cent. Figures were submitted showing that since Arbitration was enacted in 1912. there .were 727.726 days lost owing to strikes, involving the hiss in wages of £363,326. A punitive expedition against the tribe implicated in the murder of Laycock. captured and gaoled the cliiel and a number of his relatives, and burned the village, but tlw? actual murderers escaped. (Received 8.of) a.m.) Melbourne, October 15. Mr Peacock delivered Ins Budget. There is no.new taxation. The revenue was £10,218,761. exceeding the estimate hv £17*402. The expenditure amounted to £11.111.213, exceeding the estimate by £212.872. and leaving a deficit of £1.195.-170. An estimate of the expenditure for the current year was £11,477.602, including an increase of £298,681 for extra interest on debts and £IIO,OOO, the loss on imported wheat. It was slated that. Jim State coal mine showed a profit for the \oai of 10,640. the shipbuilding yard a profit of £2333, while the State coal store and beet sugar factory both showed small losses. (Received 5.20 a.m.) Sydney, October To. - The various patriotic funds in NTw South' Wales total £1,907,000, in Victoria £1,064.000. Owers was found guilty of manslaughter of Healy cabled on twenty - eighth June, and was sentenced to ten rears. Perth, October 15. Leopold Rothschild has cabled the president of the Hebrew congregation that there are over one and a-hall-million Jewish sufferers hi the Russian war zone, their sufferings . being appalling. The president is appealing for an assistance fund to he started. Alelbourne, October 15. Mrs Mabel Weston was shot dead. Miss Black wa s arrested for murdering her. Alis's Black told the police that deceased was trying to estrange her from a man named Pinzack. She went to Weston’s house and saw her and Pinzack lunching together, but what subsequently happened was a blank. The Lion. Mr Fisher announced that the Bulgarians mi Australia were now treated as enemy subjects. Hobart, October 15. The Assembly agreed to an extension of Hie life of Parliament to March, 1917. (Received 8.55 a.m.) Sydney, October 10. The Jockey Club has reduced the prize money in the A illiers Stakes to £BOO. and the Summer Cup to 91200. Adelaide, October 15. Wool was active and all good classes were one farthing and a-half-pwmy above last sales, Inferiors were similarly lower.