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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 12, 15 January 1915, Page 5

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[Press Association.] oaDNEY, Jan. 14. The export of coal from Newcastle in 1914 totalled 6,753,505 tons>. compared with 5,236,621 the previous year. Exports to New Zealand declined 90,000 tons. The news-vendors' boycott con- t tinues, and the public are greatly in- > : eonvenienced by no papers being procurable in the streets. ..! MELBOURNE, Jan. 14. i Mr Deakin will act as Australian representative at the Panama Bxhibi- : tion. He'will depart next week. Mr -. Mahon's last word is that Mr Deakin's i appointment is a magnanimous act on \ the part of the Federal Government. SYDNEY, Jan. 15. Dr' Mixira, head of the Japanese , commercial delegation, is interviewing i business-men "and officials in connection with the expansion of JapaneseAustralian trade. Later he intends visiting the other States and New Zealand for the same purpose.

Shipping returns show that ! 1914 a total of. 2273 oversea" vessels',"^ aggregating 10,104,481 toiis, entered; against 2348 vessels of 10,257,002 tons in 1913. The decrease is considered clue to tlie war. The figures up to July'show a considerable increase over those of 1913. ■ . • . MELBOURNE, Jan. 15. It is believed that South Africa- was the source of the outbreak of smallpox on the steamer Runic. As far as at present is ascertainable the gold production of the- Commonwealth for 1914 aggregated 2,048,905 ounces fine, compared with 2,202,54t> produced in 1913.