CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13786, 11 September 1915, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(Press Assn.— Hy Telegraph- Copyright.)

(Received September 11. 9 a.m. J

MBLROI'ISNK. Sept. II

At the result of a mass meeting the men decided to accept the Mount Lyell Company's terms and are resnmiug"immediatelv.

In the Senate a return was tabled Showing that (here was. 299 militia officers m paid positions m various States who had not offered their services at the front.

The Mount Lvell returns from August sth to September Ist show 27.198 tons of ore treated, yielding 602 tons of copper, 28.824 ounces of silver, and 722 ounces of gold. \

The annual report of the Prisons Department for 1914 .shows a decrease of 221 m prison admissions. Regarding tiie proposal to close the Melbourne gaol, the report declares that though technical instruction is unquestionably much more valuable as a sor-ial effort than punishment of crime, it seems unwise to materially reduce gaol accommodation. In connection with their purchases of wheat from the Government, the millers aro threatened with a loss of £8000 on offal left on their hands. When prices of bran and pollard were reduced the mill-owners notified tho State Government their intention to closfe -down the mills because the Government woii'Jd not stand m on their loss. The Minister for. Agriculture replied that unless the millers continued grinding the Government would seize two of the largest mills and supply tho people with flour. The millers thereupon gave way. There have been 119 cases of meningitis m the Victorian camps to date, and 44 deaths. '

BE TSBANE, Sept. 4. Sanction has Ix n given the police to form a uni&n.

The price of flour m the southern division has been fixed at £20, of pollard £7, and bran.. £6 per ton. '' '

SYDNEY. Septj. 10. Mr Herbert W. Cony, of the Star Line, has arrived to take over the managership of the C. and. D. Line.