COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 14, 20 December 1915, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

ME yIW-CO*T OF FOODS!UFFB. ‘•f ,* — <..• - '«•- Sydney, December 20. <» vTh®L*H^r«ld^; in . comparing the cost i v otfloijwrJ at -thif,. and - last t Chrisfcmp*^ 'vmfitp thatr.forty,-' gqoceMeg■: are’ ‘tHyepty t fiatpn; add' hamrape ■ i j per, lb. dea r- ■ ier, - and cheese is fourpeuce dparey,. ■ ■ Butter 37s per, cwt. ; .ami ’ a ;■ ton. Brisbane, December 20. Johnston and J£ffiemanV sawmill at Sodthpon was destroyed by fire. The damaged is .£BOOO. CUITOMSDUTYJRJEfIOVED ON nkw Zealand wheat. , (Received 9.45 a.in.) Sydney, December 20. Mr Halhhas obtained a rebate of the Customs didy on a hundred thousand bushels pi Wheat which ,!S>w Zealand had r eturned in place of that loaned last. ■ ■ Customs' -duties amounting-tb ■ £2200’ have been impos- ' ed*since the- l«nn' Was made. W««TADtTHALIANCERBALS. Perth, December 20. The Government Statistician esti* mates that the wheat crop will be 1;75Mr<016 acres, producing 23,190,521 bifchels, an increase of 9,859,171 rover the- previous record. In pats, i there are-; 108,199-meres, yielding 1,786.454 bushels, vThp' barley area is 11,089 aeifes, to yield 216,818 bushels.

ENTERPRISE. 4 Brisbane, December 20. i The Government ha s recently been negotiating for the purchase of the Blackheath and. Aberdare coal mines fbr {State putpbses. It is now stated that the .Government lias made a purchase of the Box Flat and Parkhead properties in the same district. The price is between £75,000 and £IOO,OOO. POLITICIAN’S JtWSILEE. Perth, December 20. cOJßgratnlptory messages have b#ftn.pent to Sir J.ohn Forrest on the completion of his fiftieth year contiftiabtaty in.public life.