MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15338, 23 July 1915, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

1, H»- ' ■■ •• (By Cablo.-Prees Associatioju-Gipjrigfct.) ; " ih Lt ff r ° 90r c ir Z m Now Yoffc that ;, the offices of the Tidewater Oil Com- ,-, pany. whoso employees refused to . .strike, wero burnt- to the ground", i' Serious floods in Assam are' doinc - coaKuJcrable damage to the £* S. Slcff IW 3rJv at Cachar ' > The Queensland Government bavo increased wages on railway construction work by Is a day, involving a total increase of £60,000. • l m The New South Wales State brick works, m tho pest twelve months, mado . a net profit o f £7000, besides a direct . aavin R of £11000 to tho'QmrernSS ■ » on its own buildings. • T, i ,0 * d '? cu ? fc y in Australia with re i yard to tho import duty on raw Java , sugar, which tho Colonial Sugar ComI pany refused to pay has been overcome •by Federal authorities paying the duty, thus-ensuring increased supplies. ' * ln il ,0 < : ral House ; of Itepresonta-. ' Z C * * h ?, M «n'ster of Customs said that • arter fully considering tho matter the Orpvernment had decided that it was not advisable to reopen tho tariff question at present. , _ Tho Hisht Hon. Andrew Fisher 1 rime Minister of Australia, has issued a writ against James Spencer, claiming damages for aliened slander contained n a statement imputing that plaintiff lad committed a criminal o n"cnce calcnlated to imperil hi s holding tho Prime Mimstcrship. A Xew York message says that.serious riots, in which many"people were wounded, followed the strike at the Standard Oil Company's works at Bayou. Mobs attacked the guards with sticks and stones, and the guards retaliated with pistoj shots. Five thousand men were involved. One was killed and fifty wounded. Sir George Reid's report for 1914 states that the loss of re\-enue on the Pacific cable was between f>lo.ooo and JoO.OQO, due to the damage done at tanning Island station by a German cruiser, the damage alone amounting to . £10.000. The decrease in the immigration to Australia was 42.9 per cent to >.ew Zealand 44.7, and to Canada 48 9 as compared with 1913.