COMMONWEALTH CABLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 80, 25 July 1914, Page 8

COMMONWEALTH CABLE.

i( Hy Emctbio TKLEGUAPn—Cf rraiQHT] i [United.Press Association,] Sydney','July '24. The motor Vehicle imports into'New South .'Wales during the past'half-year are valued at £377,000", Professor Douglas Laurie, zoologist at the Liverpool- University, as .the result of research work on Lord Howe Island, says the fauna shows affinity with New Zealand and the beetles with Australia, but it is impossible to ' say till all the data has been worked out whether the Island originally joined New Zealand or Australia, hut he does not think it was ever a part of Polynesia. The South Sydney* and Eastern Sub. u.ybs,, Rugby -League . Clubs; want j per-' mission tp,negotiate, for sending a team to .tour New Zealand,at the close of |.he Sydney season, : S. Deano is'departing for England to' join ' the Hull ; Club at a remunerative 'fee; * • -.<. i Melbourne, July 24. The > Government has. intimated to the.-.Chamber,,io£ Commerce,., thafc a regular ..and .direct, steamship service, which it is hoped will be permanent, is' to be 'inaugurated between,, San Francisco and Melbourne. Tlie first steamer'leaves ilelbourne during the present-month.'' 'V The- Assembly negatived Mr Solly's amendment of the -Shops-Bill providing for equal pay for women and,men.