CABLE ITEMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1915, Page 5

CABLE ITEMS.

(.PRBSB ABSOCIATIun.j LONDON, Oct. .18. I Mr Seymour Hicks's creditois have* accepted*a composition v!' 0s 8d in the* pound.' Mr Hicks undertakes tomv a .t the rate ol" £1040 unnually toa. ■trustee. About £4817 will . berequire! to pay ih? composi.Ton.. ! airs- Hicks' (Miss Eliahne Terms), I who was a. creditor for £2t',000, -forewent her SYDN^Yj 19 . The Master Bakers' Federation Convention resolved thnt the Govei-n----ment eon&rol of food pnres whs not i beneficial and should be di^ontmned. The City Conncil has aijproved ot TheMailland minore' at^^ !no desire t<. BANFI , Oct. 20 : 1 ,\ mass meeting passed a rcgh.-riow ursine the Gov.rnment to ti^o a n>iVremlum on the subject of the early doTRoM^BOIJWNE,Oct M. • Mr Jnstiw HijSßins has. alg v^ lattor to grant the waftea mcreast-. aelWindw!V ' SYDNKY, .Oct 50. \ The Labor T-nuons approved of w proposal to. inttcduoe .a l^U tins session providing for the # cp<mtn« f f hotels !<t S. a.m. and closing them at I(tlh* U*wheele«'s at . Hepburn ■' W& Pelawmain eoUieri^s have struck, demanding payment at the ..Neweistlo rate.- ■ y ' ■ . , •■'■