CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13717, 22 June 1915, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

♦ | (Press Assn.— My Telegraph— Copyright.) LONDON. June 21. Travels won the open golf championship of America. I Received June 22. 9 a.m.) SYDNEY. June 22. Mr Black has decided that the police shall work on eight-hour shifts. (Received Junue 22, 11.5 a.m.) MELBOURXK. June 22. The juice o! butter has boon raised a penny wholesale and is now Is 11<L per pound. Mr Justice Hood has iuvn unpointed to act as a Roj'al Commission to inquire into the oxp^rt of Victoriaii frozen meat. Mr l'earco status tliut the Defence lie-psul-nu;nt saved £21,000 by the purchase of/ .4000 tuns, of New Zealand ladder.. Tl|<i diiFerenee between the Netf Zealand and the Australian price was" £4 5s per ton. The Federal authorities have increased j the stringency of the regulations regard- ! ing the importation of , Xeu' Zealand | horses. A certificate of a Government veterinary officer must accompany.-stat-ing of his knowledge that the animal has not been within country' whenau-thV. importation of horses to Australia is forbidden under the Quarantine .^cL within thr*><> preceding years. BRISBANE, April 22. In reply to a- deputation of timbergetters, Mr Hunter stated that with the present rate of denuda.ti.on the entire timber resources would be exhausted m twenty years unless aomethiiig was dr>ne to conserve the forests.