GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 85, 8 October 1915, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

» OBITUARY OOLONJEL 1 WALLACE, VTCTORE_N STATE COMMANDANT. (Received Octover 8, 9.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This- Day. Colonel -Wallack, State Commandanti, is dead. [Colonel Ernest Townshend Wallack was appointed to be State Commandant in Victoria only a few moni&s ago, his predecessor having been sent to succeed the late General Bridges. He was previously District Commandant in New South Wales, and A.D.C. to the Go-vernor-General. He served in the South African War, was Acting- Commandant in Tasmania 1904-5, Commandant in South Australia 1905-6, and afterwards Adjutant-General a,nd a member of the Commonwealth Military Board. He was born in 1857.] LIQUOR RESTRICTION ACT ABSOLUTE FAILURE IN VICTORIA. (Received October 8, 9.30 &.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The police report that the Liquor Restriction Act is an absolute failure. It affords many loopholes for evading the law. VICTORIAN WHEAT AND FLOUR SIXTEEN DAYS' SUPPLY IN HAND. (Received October S, 9.30 a.m.J MELBOURNE, This Day. A census of the wheat and flour stock* Held in Victoria on 27th September revealed that there were 80,953 bushels of wheat and 4462 tons of flour, which is estimated to i*epresent only sixteen days' supply. •- LABOUR CRITICISM OF N.S.W. GOVERNMENT (Received October 8, 9.30 _.m-) SYDNEY, This Day. The Labour Council debated the motion of censure on the Holman Government for failing to introduce industrial legislation. SEIZURE OP OPIUM (Received October 8, 8.50 a-m4 SYDNEY, This Day. Customs officers seized 175 tins of opium, found under the coal bunkers of the steamer Batsford, from New. Zealand parte-V-^Mfilhqm_t6._^.^ ~" "~