COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 89, 5 August 1914, Page 7

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

! PRICE Or HORSEFLESH IN | W '*' W ' I L Bsr Electric Teleobai'h—CorTßiGHT3 I [United Press Association.] (Received 9 a.m.) Sydney, August -I. At the sale of draught horses follow- ; ' ing the annual parade the prices nc:v | very low. The New Zealand-bred stnl- | lion, Native Chief, realised the top j price at £3lO. _ on behalf 01 I Messrs John . (.' rant A Mitchell, and ] ij'Brien, of New Zea/uui, ranged from j C:J2 to £IGO. TROUBLE IN tVe MEW . HEBRIDES. From ifle Xew [Hebrides, the British >fricials are inquiring into the trouble hat has arisen regarding the alleged j ittempt of French officials to invade | lie land. A X< w Zealand trader, a I ■torekeeper at Vila, stated thai . rencli officials Aent a posse of police o pull down a fence. Scuffling followed, and the grench Lieutenant of j ' Police ordered aliumber of Britishers j to be arrested. TJfc police did not obey he order. The Mdtjghfßesident was informed, and he the French to cease the make an inroad pending an inquiry, .feeling in .he matter runs high. v The birth-rate in Xew South Wale.-, for July was fifteen per cent, above ;he average of the previous five years.