MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15337, 22 July 1915, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(Bγ Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) _ The- Sydney Savings Bank Commissioners announce that the depositors' balance at the end of the financial year ■was i;33,,">37,017, an increase of ~1.0-10.71!) over tlic figures for the previous jear. In the Now South Wales Assembly, ,-'jlr A. Wade\«, motion that the Com- - monweahh Constitution should be «il- ,. tered to allow the representation of the States in the Senate to be according to population, was carried. The Now South Wales Government Ms purchased £-500.000 worth of wheat 'win America. Tt is due to arrive in -ten shipments duriug this month and - -, test. 'if 06 Queensland Government has taken over control of the exnort of • - -'Utter. It is purchasing largely, and after satisfying local requirements will "tort the balance to the best advau- i «2». ■ i y A" message from Sydney say* that- the federal Government's action in regard «Vij ar bU^',&s has caused practically i •nold-uD. sugar beiug almost* unobtain- | i* a a^in 2 merchants say that! M effect of the Government's effort to j .-«* been to make numbers of small - bankrupt. t 2arry Gray, the billiard player, has declared bankrupt with liabilities *«K>unting to i-ICOU and assets nil. - p a "si-opt stated that he had paid John . «operts the damages awarded with . the o f 1?. Wootton, .to wJum ho , : ;?«r owed £1020. Jl e intended oven- "»* since the war broke out; flb'J -S*** eathely depondcjjt on hi* sou's