COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 51, 5 February 1916, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

BONUS FOR PETROLEUM. United Press Assooiat.on, (Received 1.0 p.m.) Sydney, February 5. The Government is offering £IOOO for the first production of -500,000 gallons of petroleum. MISCELLANEOUS iTEMS. (Received 12.50 p.m.) Sydney, February 5. The office at the Barrier mine was picketted, and an attempt to prevent communication caused considerable disturbances, several' arrests being made. Senator Pearce announced that the Government had considered the dispute, and in view of the Umpire’s need of metals and munitions, he proposed that the mine work four days a week, not on Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays. Otherwise they must' work under the old agreement pending the Court’s discussion. Melbourne, February 5. The Defence Department lias decided that the enlistments will be restricted to men of European origin, and Asiatics though born here will lie barred. Mr Griffiths’ scheme of a Patents’ Investigation Board lias proved of considerable service in investigating thirty war investments. Adelaide, February 5. At the wool sales competition was keen. Good merinos showed 5 to 20 per cent advance on late rates. Melbourne, February 5. Representatives of the Imperial Department of Munitions purchased five hundred tons of steel. This is the first occasion that steel has been manufactured here for the making of munitions in England.