COMMONWEALTH CABLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 28, 7 June 1913, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH CABLES

SINGER MACHINE CASE. [By Eleothio Telegkapf— Copyright [United Peess Association.! Sydney, June 6. Justice Street, in allowing the ap peal of the Singer Machine Company against the Registrar in Bankruptcy granting frank Denbon Brown, late manager of the company, a certiiicatt of discharge, with a nominal suspension of one day, strongly commenced on Brown's business conduct. He con eluded: "Brown has not only snowr himself wanting in commercial moral ity, but has proved so entirely devoid of the rudimentary elements of common honesty as to put it altogethei out of the question that he should be allowed to trade on his own account.' 1 A STORY OF ILL-TREATMENT. Sydney, June 6. Kate Siely, aged fourteen, has beer acquitted on a charge of murdering her father at Shell Harbor last month. The evidence disclosed a pathetic story of years of drunken ill-treatmeni of his wife and family by the dead man. The gun with which the fatal wound was inflicted went off while the girl was struggling to get it from her father after threats to shoot the wholo family. A TREMENDOUS LAND DEAL. Sydney, June 6. Mr J. E. Davenport, of Lyttelton. has purchased, through Dalgety and Co., 10,735 square miles of grazing country in the Northern Territory paying £IOO,OOO deposit. It is reported that he subsequently received an offei whereby he could'have cleared £40,00" on the transaction.