MISCELLANEOUS CABLES
(By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.)
year the Commonwealth Posted Department handled eight hundred million letters, postcards, and papers.
.lie West Australian General Workens' Union has resolved to amalgamate with the Australian Workers' Union.
A message received from London says that Mr Keir Hardio is suffering from a slight attack of paralysis, but is improving.
A man named Jarvis has been committed, for trial for the murder of Lucy Carlson, who was also known as Lucy Gorman, at .Richmond, Melbourne.
Grafton's demand for separation from Now South Wales is the outcome of the Minister of Works declining to continue the free lorry service across the Grafton river.
A cablegram from London says that the severest floods in living memory are devastating the Feu country. The pumping stations are powerless to cope with the water. May homes in Littleport and South,Bergh have been evacuated.
It is reported from Melbourne that investigations into tho recent; disappearance of £2000 worth of Commonwealth notes shows that it was the result of a carefully-planned coup. The parcels of useless paper which replaced the parcels of notes, copied the latter to the smallest detail. Apparently the coup was carried out after the parcels had left the hands of tho Treasury and postal officials at Melbourne.
MISCELLANEOUS CABLES
Press, Volume LI, Issue 15173, 11 January 1915, Page 9
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