GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

AUSTRALIAN MAIL CONTRACTS ■ RAILWAY AGREEMENT TO BE - ENDED. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received October 9, 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr. TV. G. Spence, Commonwealth Post-master-General, has given the .Railway Departments of all the States twelve months' notice terminating the agreement for the carriage of mails, owing to the excessive rates. MENINGITIS IN VICTORIA EXTENT OF EPIDEMIC. (Received October 9, 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. During the Meningitis outbreak there •were 447 cases. Eighty-eight males and forty-six females died. EXPLORER DEAD ' LAST OF STUART'S PARTY. (Received October 9, 11 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. Stephen King, the last of the Australian survivors of Stuart's expedition, is dead. [John M'Douall Stuart, between 1858 and 1862, made six expeditions into the interior of South Australia, the last of which brought him to the shores of the Indian Ocean at Van Diemen's Gulf, at the mouth of the Adelaide River.] BROKEN HILL MINERS WANT FORTY-FOUR HOUR WEEK. (Received October 9, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A mass meeting of Broken Hill miners resolved to continue the fight for a fortyfour hour week. HOURS OF LIQUOR TRADE PROPOSALS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. (Received October 9, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Cabinet deliberated the question of early closing. The Ministers decided amongst themselves that hotels shall close at 10 o'clock, but a caucus will be asked to decide whether the hour shall be 9 or 10. The Government proposes to open the hotels two hours later and close an hour earlier, making the trading hours 8 to 10. Such an amendment of the Liquor Act jwill prevail during the currency of the •war, and will automatically cease on the declaration of peace. PORTUGUESE TROOPS LEAVING FOR MOZAMBIQUE. (Received October 9, 10.20 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Bth October. The Exchange Agency's Lisbon correspondent reports, without comment, that transports conveying expeditionary forces have sailed for Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa. AUSTRALIAN FINANCES INVESTIGATING LOAN PROSPECTS. (Received October 9, 10.20 a.m.)' s SYDNEY, This Day. Enquiries "which New South Wales and some of the other States are making in London and America as to the prospects of floating loans indicate that the London market is unfavourable to participating in public works flotations, while -American financiers are willing to lend on certain terms and at a rate considerably enhanced upon what 'was previously J>aid for borrowed money.' , BROKEN HILL STEEL WORKS EXTENDING PLANT AND .OUTFIT. (Received October 9. 10.20 a.m.) " SYDNEY, This Day. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company's Steel Works is extending its plant and increasing its output from 225,000 to 170,000 tons annually. OBITUARY E. P FOX, ARTIST. MELBOURNE, Bth October. The death is announced of Mr. Emanuel Phillips Fox, the artist. [Mr. E. P. Fox was an accomplished and versatile painter, and for some time held an assured position in Paris. He was born in Melbourne in 1865, and studied at the Victorian National Gallery, and Julian's Atelier and les Beaux Arts, Paris. He was the only Australian a Societairo of the New Salon, Paris. His pictures include "Al Fresco" (Adelaide Gallery), "A Love Story," the historical painting, "The Landing of Captain Cook" (Melbourne Gallery), and "Lady in Black," "Adelaide," and ■■"Autumn Showers" (Sydney Gallery).] NEW ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN LOiNDON, Bth October. The Right Rev. J. H. Bernard, Bishop of Ossory, has been elected Archbishop of Dublin, vice the Most Rev. J. F. jpeacocke, who has resigned. [The Most Rev. Joseph Ferguson Peaeocke, Primate of Ireland, was born in Novamber, 1835, and was appointed Archbishop of Dublin in 189,7. His successor, the Right Rev. John Henry Bernard, D.D., has been Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin since 1911. He was born in India in July, J. 060.]