COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 59, 14 June 1916, Page 4

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Tf! LIBERAL PARTY. Sydney, June 13. The Literals intend making a big bid at til • next State election, and are already ;■ > ginising and putting their house in :•'.' i . They have engaged Mr Percy Hunter, late head of the Government Immigration Department, as special general organiser, at a handsome salary. Negotiations are being completed whereby the Liberals and Mr Beeby's Progressive Party,. while not actually coalescing, will work in mutual support. RECORD WOOL PRICES. Two further Sydney wool records were made to-day, when greasy merino sold at 22d, and scoured super comeback fetched 36£d. EARTH TREMORS. Severe earth tremors are reported from several districts. Doors and windows rattled. The lighthouse on Seal Rocks was slightly damaged. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, June 14. Distinct earthquake shocks were felt in Sydney, people being awakened by the shaking of their beds, and the battering of crockery. Buildings were violently shaken in some places. SYDNEY WOOL RECORD. (Received 9.45 a.m.) ; Sydney, June 14. Another wool record has been put up, fleecy scoured fetching 3W per lb. MINERS STRIKE. Miners at the Pelawmain, Stanford, and Merthyr pits have struck as a protest against the employment of alleged Germans. .(Received 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, June 14. The Germans employed at the pits have been dismissed and.the miners have resumed. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Adelaide, June 14., It is officially stated that owing jt> the meat shortage, and the possibility iA South Australia getting meat, (in restricted coupons issued by the Gover.ment the Cabinet will be asked to legislate to permit the sale of frozen meat from other States, or New Zealand during any period in whicn the country may be suffering from the effects of drought.

INVALIDITY REPORT. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Melbourne, June 14. The Federal Committee, which is inquiring into the death and invalidity report, in dealing with venereal diseases urges the instruction of boys of fifteen wars of age by schoolmasters, the necessity of clean living and continence, and recommends legislation t,, abolish quacks, compel notification and treatment by qualified practitioners, and general action to ensure compulsory treatment and supervision of cases. "STRIKE-LAND." (Received 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, June 14. Addressing commercial men at Newcastle, Mr Sutton, Trade Commissioner in the East, referred to the strike evil, which was responsible for the State losing all the Eastern coal trade. New South Wales was known all over Asia as "strike-land." INTERESTING ELECTION DISPUTE. (Received 9.45 a.m.) Sydney, June 14. An important High Court decision lias been given concerning the recent city Alderman ic election. It was discovered that thirteen strangers had been allowed to vote in the names of others who were entitled to vote, but did not. The Supreme Court decided that the candidate for whom the votes were recorded was not duly elected, and granted an ouster order. An appeal against the order was made to the High Conn, which, by a majority granted the appeal, the dissentient being the Chief Justice (Justice Barton). The Chief Justice, on the delivery of the verdict, invited public attention to the state of the law. which showed that if sufficient personators to turn the scale voted, yet such elec* tion was valid and could not be upset. As the majority of the Bench ruled thus, he was bound to accept the decision as correctly declaring the law, until it was over-ruled or altered, butt I he could not believe It expressed the I deliberate will of Parliament or the people of the Commonwealth.