GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1915, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ALIEN'S SUICIDE, Uy Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, August 10. Ludwig Hermann Brack, partner in the well-known medical instrument ageney, was fuimd unconscious and died in the liosfjital from morphia poisoning. lieleft u letter for his partner expressing grief that lie was unintentionally the cause of the proceedings pending on a charge of trading with the enemy, adding: "You are quite innocent in the matter. The only way 1 can see to got out of it is to end my life." Then he detailed his preparations to poison himself. When the ease against Brack's firm was called, an adjournment was grouted for a week on the ground that Bruek had died suddenly. EARLY CLOSING OF HOTELS. Sydney, August 10. At the New South Wales Alliance demonstration in favor of the six o'clock closing of hotels a feature was the unveiling of a petition two miles long, containing 113,000 signatures. POSTAL DEFICIT. Melbourne, August l(i. The loss to the, Postal Telegraph Department last year was £300,000. The Postmaster-General proposes to make it up by reducing the word limit of telegraph messages from sixteen to twelve, increasing the cost of messages inside the States, other than town and suburban, from ninepence to one shilling, and also increasing telephone call rates.-' •• ■•'•■•■ '-'' ■'■' ATWOCATRS ' 'MOBBED.' Adelaide, August 10. Two peace advocates in the Botanic Park were roughly handled by a big crowd, a posse of police having difficuhy in libelling them, SHIPMENT OF WHEAT. Melbourne, August 111. An inter-State conference approved of the arrangement whereby the Commonwealth, in co-operation with the States, exelusheiy control* and charters steamers for expoit of the forthcoming wheat crop. It also approved of the arrangement already made by the Commonwealth with certain shipping firms in the mutter. PALL IN BUTTER. Melbourne, August 17. The price of butter has been reduced by threepence, to Is lOd. The reduction is due to the fact that New Zealand is permitting the export of butter. OIL CONTKACTS IN CHINA. Pekin, August 10. China has declined to arrange a permanent contract with the Standard Oil Company for the exploitation of the northern oil districts. The preliminary twelve months' agreement, under which the area was to be prospected, has now expired. BRITISH CROP REPORTS. London, August 10. The Times' British crops report shows that the condition on August 1 was:— Wheat !i1.77, barley 85. oats 50.7, and beans 82.15, the figure 100 representing a first-class crop.