COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 47, 18 October 1912, Page 7

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Burglars rilled the strong room of Harris and Scarf in Adelaide and stole £IOOO worth of jewellery. Casey has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, with hard labour. The' estate of the late Thomas Cook, of Turanville stud farm, lias been sworn at £325,273. There are large bequests to the Anglican Church and charities. The Manuka’s potatoes from New Zealand were not wholly rejected. Importers were permitted to sort them under supervision. The sale of the good tubers is restricted to the city. Two miners named Floyd and Stewart entered the cage of the Tasmanian mine. Something went wrong with the machinery, and they fell nine hundred feet and were dashed to pieces. In the House in Melbourne, Mr Fisher, replying to a suggestion that the Government should recognise the heroism of the Lyell rescuers, thought that the time had arrived when the Government should recognise these heroes of the first class. In replying to a question, he said that he considered it unnecessary to pass a resolution expressing horror at the attempt on Mr Roosevelt’s life when the injuries were so slight. At the Sugar Commission, Mr Knox, dealing with the riskiness of the industry, said that the Colonial Sugar Company recently lost £50,000 on two cargoes of Java sugar ordered after the crop prospects in Queensland had brightened. A drought followed, and they re-bought the cargoes at an additional cost of £38,000. The chair- 1 man, referring to the advantages resulting from protective duties on sugar, said white had been substituted for coloured labour, effecting an important contribution to the solution of the White Australia problem. Also by filling unoccupied tropical areas, which constitute a direct temptation to Asiatic invasion, they had vitally contributed to a solution of the defence question. He again asked Air Knox to answer questions covering the internal management of the company, but Mr Knox declined, on the strength of the High Court decision.