CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14646, 2 July 1918, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

iElec. Tel. Copyrigntr-Unitea Press Aspn.) , :_\ v ,;.,, v ..;■; . iSYDNEY, Juty I. •'•■vTneH iforjlicdniing estimates include £100,000 to raise , schoolteachers' salaries from a minimum of £132 to £156. In view oi this and other new expenditure, i. further taxation may .'. be anticipated, but the form it will take Jias not, yet been, decided on. < Mr. Holnran, addressing the fust conference of the National Association, said, the Government intended to introduce a more drastic law to deal with Fines, and, 4n?pi'isonment were useless;;- TJio punishment proposed, was to disqualify offenders from holding ■any.;.;, public! position, whether municipal or political,' for life. . At the; s,tud .sheep sales . bidding was 1 dull. Buyers wei'e- cautious, and" with the except-ion of >& Hayijali merino ram, which fetched* 300 .guineas," prices were the, lowest,? | or ; sevwalx years., EdinneyMarsh .ewes" on - beTi^lf of Mr. Sutherland averaged £3 17s. Corriedale A'ams .;pn behalf pi Mr. Leonard (Ra&aijji) ayeraged: £8 » 18s 6d and 4wes averaged «7 T7 S : :A" 'ifenUiquin :®bo& ram was sold . privately for 2500 guineas.-. .. r . f ... ■■•;;, '■', •- ; ■' (R«ceivea July 2, 10,40 a.m.) ,v, SYDNEY, July ,2. The National ■ Ck>nfej:ence passed a rifo^ion u%i)ig'}pj(.^rep l og.>to spldiemrond fheu* childiien -^in. .State employmemt^and debated a.; niiqition that a referendum- bo held! ia* kh early date- «h Me^ ad-visa^lity ot; vMd'iieing; the number of mem'b e^ bf the State 1 JPadiaineni. . '„-}' i > .on^^f the 'leaders d^t;h,9 exti'enwst .sectionidfthe Labor Cdqncil', lias been committed for trial on ,'^jiree dia'rg€s^of '.disloyalty^ ' ' >V' .Obituary : Mr Wm. Warren, fogmer miaai^ger for A ; usU^alia' of the Extern Estenscon Telegraph- Ccwnpany. ' ; ■ MELBOURNE. JuilvVg. Tlie Governinent^V preparing to fpoat another war loan '.[ofo^oyty , mfl-hons. Treasury •■•'returria show tKat 1^,732 y^ar pension^ have jbeen iswedi representin;g an ajn^^a|;|ial)aftyJof,£3,6^jßs3| ' 'Mt Watt nas 'abandoned 'his visit to Now.;, South Wales to adilress tlie State House>, r x>witig.to ill-liealtli. -'TS . The -wJie^t pool., pvei'da'af t is now eleven niffi'ionsV'arid \rheh tne payments arranged for are completed the amount will be about fourteen millions, v The racehorse W^si?erndale, a Grand 'Natkmal candidate^ has been sold r for thr.ee hundred guineas. Royal Precedent, when galloping at Epsom, broke a blood! vessel and died. BRISBANE, July 2. The revenue for the year amounted to £8,300,000—3, record for the State—'leaving '■» deficit <xf£409i451;->^.