COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 33, 2 October 1912, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

HONORARIUM REFUSED. (Received 9.40 a.ra.) Sydney, October 2. Ten members refused to accept the additional £2OO recently voted to their salaries as provided by Parliament. SYDNEY SKYSCRAPER. Sydney, October 2. The City Council has granted a permit to the Daily Telegraph to erect a building 193 feet high on the site of the Metropolitan Hotel at the corner of King and Castlereagh Streets. glen innes tragedy. The verdict in the Glen Lines Tragedy was' that the .woman Donnelly shot Thompson and then committed suicide. MEAGHER’S RE-INSTATEMENT. Tile third reading of the Meagher Reinstatement Rill passed the'Assentply by 34 votes to 21. -VICE-REGAL RESIDENCE. (Received 10.20 a.m.) Melbourne, October 2. Air Fisher (Prime Minister) has received the offer ,of a Sydney resident to pay the rent of the Governor-Gen-eral’s residence in Sydney, but Mr Fisher declares it is impossible to accept it. DECEASED WIFE’S SISTER. The Presbyterian Assembly rejected the motion referring to the marriage ol a deceased wife’s sister for the PanPresbyterian Council sitting at Aberdeen in June, 1914. An amendment was carried that an alteration be made in the Confession of Faith, declaring that such marriage should not be visited by an ecclesiastical censure of disability upon the minister or the parties. TRAIN COLLISION AVERTED. A goods train standing in the South Kensington Junction when re-started passed the signal at danger. The driver noticed the mistake and applied the brakes, a truck being derailed In the sudden stoppage. A signalman, observing the mistake, applied the signals against a picnic special coming on an adjoining line, thus averting ; disaster. MATERNITY ALLOWANCE. In the House the maternity Allowance Rill passed its third reading. THE COLONIAL MUTUAL. A petition from the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society 7 presentee + o the Assembly state® that four out of the five signatories to the petition cabled on September 20th were form crly employed by the Society. Tin | petition alleges that one was dismissed for misconduct, and the other three were dispensed with for good and sufficient reasons. The petition urged that none of tin allegations were supported by evidence other than statements contained ii the petition itself The statement! against the society viz., its conduct h financing and management, arc de nied and are discribed as false and misleading. The petitioners believe tin previous petition was presented witl I the intention of injuring the society and damaging its interests, and was not bona fide in the public interest or in the interests of the society. The Assembly decided to print anc circulate the petition, which was ol great length. ■ The debate pn the second reading of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Rill was adjourned after the motion that the Rill be road that day six months was defeated by 20 to IS.