PENINSULAR COMPANY'S STEAMERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 68, 22 March 1915, Page 8

PENINSULAR COMPANY'S STEAMERS

NOT TO CALL AT PLYMOUTH. (Received March 22, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, 21st. March. The Peninsular Company's mail boats in future will not call at Plymouth. NEWCASTLE COAL CUTTING THE PRICES. (Received March 22, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. 'Speaking at Mmmi, Mr. Brown, chairman of the Colliery Proprietors' Defence Association, said the association had been practically wiped out. The cutting of the selling price of coal had commenced, and transports were being supplied at 10s per ton. He was determined to get back the trade lost through the afternoon shifts strike, even if he had to cut prices. The prospects of foreign trade were gloomy, and it would not be long before the selling price had fallen to Bs. SWIMMING MISS DURACK BREAKS ANOTHER RECORD. (Received March 22, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The ladies' 150 yards swimming championship of New South Wales was won by Miss Fanny Durack in lmin 54 1-5 sec, lowering her * own previous record (lmin 55sec). . ( ladies; hockey (Received March 22, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, 21st March. The English ladies international hockey team beat a : New Zealand touring eleven at Richmond by 9 goal* to nil. VICTORIAN SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP 1 ' (Received March' 22, 11.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. B. Kelly won the Victorian sculling championship. PUBLIC SCHOOL CRICKET A REqORD. (Received March 22, 11.35 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Grammar School, in the first innings against Geelong College, scored 981 runs-r-Sharp (not out) -506., This is a big schools record. [On Friday the Grammar School had lost eight -wickets for 943 runs- Sharp was not out with 492, and Herring 238. In March, 1909, Sydney Grammar School scored 916. The largest total score in one innings by any team was made by the Melbourne University Club in March, 1898, the book showing 1094 runs.]