GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1915, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

AI'STItALIAX (iOLI) VllvLl). By Cable—l'rcss Association—Copyright. Melbourne. .July 10.. The half-yearly "old return in Australia was ounces, a decrease ni 45.-2.55 ounces. MOCXT LYHU, KRTUUNN. .Melbourne, July IU. At Mount l.yell, from June 10 to .July 7. convert!! produced 3!IS tons of ni)>por.ounces of silver, and 7!)7 ounces of "old. PASSKXCKKS FROM LOXIXiX. Melbourne, July 111. The Orontes' Xe\y Zealand passengers are: —Messrs .(filbert, Simmons, Duncan, (iraysoii, and Smith, Mesdames Simmons, Duncan, dray son. Child, Smith, Simpson, and two children. Misses Cameron (three), and .seventeen tiih'd-ckiss. HOMKBUSH PHICKS. Sydney, July lli. There were further record priors for cattle for beef to-day. Hoiitebutsh Nhori> horn bullocks fetched to £:l7 lf>s head, equal to beef at 70s to 7oa .per 100 lb. THE WHKAT CROP. Sydney, July-11). ; "The Government. does, not propose" to seize the next season's wheat crop.

| rj-DKItAL POLITICK. Melbourne, .July K>. I In the Senate the Referendum Ciij ! was passed. | QUKKNSJ.AXI) !•'( IODSTUFFS. | Brisbane, July Hi. Flour has'- incVeased twenty shillings per ton, and the price is now .£l7 lf>s. Brim and pollard have, decreased forty shillings to £rt. ' (Received on Saturday.) .Sydney, .July 10. The price of sugar has been wholesale at .£23 JOs per ton and retail at 3d per lb. The farmers' conference opposed all schemes for regulating the prices of commodities except monopolie;. The Farmers' Union passed a resolution to take all means in its power t > prevent the recurrence of the wheat grab and any interference with the primary industries, also that when the Government requires the products of sueh industries it shall purchase them at the world's market value. The Croydon hole! vas destroyed by fire and h. man named Samud Egau burned to death. The damage amounted to £I9OO I

The Telegraph comments:—"Rood as it may be to eliminate tips from the social system it will tuke more than the decree of the New Zealand Arbitration Court to do it. Tipping may be a nuisance, calamity And degradation, but it represents an element too deep-rooted in the cosmos to be eradicated. The present system, like truth, is mighty and will unfortunately prevail in spite of the protests of unions and the judgment of Arbitration Courts." ' * Brisbane, July IT. Owing to the continued drought it is feared the sugar crop will be considerably less than estimated. New York, July Hi. Thaw has been released upon a bond for £IO,OOO for his future good behavior.