CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.]

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 136, 6 December 1905, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.]

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. m [press association.] (Received December 6, 10.26 a.m.) FEDERAL TRADE MARKS BILL. MELBOURNE, This Day. Tho xinion label clause in the Trade Marks Bill Avas carried in the House of Representatives by 26 votes to 22. THE RECEXT RAILWAY ACCIDENT. SYDNEY, This Day. Pead, tho diiver of the engine in tho Maitland-Newcastle express train, who was badly injured by escaping steam, the 10sult of an accident to the boiler, has succumbed. - (Received December 6, 10.26 a.m.) ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT OF A PATENT. • MELBOURNE, This Day. The Wolsbach Light Company sought to recover damages for an infringement of their patent. The defendant challenged the validity of the patent on several grounds, including prior publication of the patents issued to the company after the mantles had been used by the Gas Company. The Judge expressed the opinion that if after purchasing an article the purchaser could see how it was made, or if an analytical chemist, without experiment, could say of what material the article was made prior to the tale, it would defeat the subsequent patent. A verdict was given for the defendant. A SOCIETY'S MISFORTUNES. MELBOURNE, This Day. Afc a meeting of the Northern District Starr Bowkett Society it was decided to wind up the society. It was announced that the defalcations of the late Secretary (Mr. Carey) amounted to £7000. POLITICS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ADELAIDE, This Day. There afe indications that a section of the Labour party is breaking away from the Government. The Premier made a statement in the House, in which ho invited metnberB to reject tho Franchise Bill as. amended by the Council. The Government had asked the House to take a certain course, and it was for its followers to support or not as they pleased. The Bill was laid aside by 22 votes to 13. The Premier intimated that if the measure was not passed next year he would seek a dissolution. / COAL CONTRACTS. SYDNEY, sth December. A Royal Commission has been appointed to enquire into the question of railway coal contracts, 'concerning which serious allegations were recently made, also to report on the relations existing between the Chief Commissioner of Railways and his fellow Commissioners, and the effect of such relations on the administration of the department. CONSPIRING TO DEFRAUD. SYDNEY, sth December. Cohen and Jiis son were found guilty of conspiring to defraud their creditors. The daughter was acquitted. The father was sentenced to four years' imprisonment and the son to nine months. CLAIM FOR INCREASED PAY. SYDNEY, sth December. The Arbitration Court has rejected a claim by the Coal-lumpers' Union for increased pay.