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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 81, 11 March 1916, Page 6

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DISFRANCHISEMENT OF ENEMY SUBJECTS. [Uniter Puess Association.! (Received 11.80 a.m.) Sydney, March 11. In the Assembly, the Naturalised Enemy Subjects Disfranchisement Bill passed the second reading. MEAT FOR IMPERIAL PURPOSES. Brisbane, March HThe Government has prohibited stock leaving the State in order to keep up the supply of meat under the Meat for Imperial Purposes Act. DOUBLE MURDER. Melbourne, March 11. A mysterious affair occurred at Seymour. ‘ Private , William Why was found dead outside a house where a number of soldiers had been drinking, and subsequently the body of his brother, Private Edward Leetby, was discovered in the rivei.

BLOOD STOCK SALES. • Meibou.TSSX, March U. At the blood stock sale, Walter Mitchell paid 7500 guineas,for Trafalgar, which is a record pnee tor an Australian bred stallion. J Robertson paid 1050 guineas for the imported in are Cy tb'ora. SLACKNESS IN COAL TRADE. Sydney, March 11. Another Colliery at West Will.send has closed owing to the slackness of trade. | SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S WHEAT. Adelaide, March 11. t The Minister of Agriculture nowestimates the wheat yield to bo between 04,000,000 and 3(1,000,000 bush--1 els. -• • ■