Commonwealth Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 10 August 1923, Page 7

Commonwealth Cables

SYDNEY WATER BOARD. Press Association— Copynght. Sydney, August 9. In consequence of tho heavy rains, the Water Board reports there is a prospect that the Manly reservoirs will overflow the levels. All tho water lestrictions have now been removed. PHENOMENA IN PRICES. Sydney, August 9. Mr Booby, presiding at a meeting of the Board of Trade, said the Board's declaration of a living wage last, April, reducing the wages and thus cheapening the cost of production, waft followed by an upward trerid in price. Ho invited i*P">sentatives of tho finance, commercial and industrial world to submitsuggestions or criticism on the phenomena to the Board which adjourned till 21th August. CHAMPION SCULLERS. Sydney, August 9. Paddon will start from scratch and Hadfield will have seven lengths load in Saturday's sculling handicap. THE COO6EE MYSTERY.

Sydney, August 9

The hearing of the charge of misprision (wrong-doing) against Alfred Hoaydon in connection with the Coogee * mystery has. commenced. It is! attracting great public attention and the court was crowded. Heaydon, who denied complicity in his wife's disappearance, was , committed for trial. MUTINY ON WARSHIP. Sydney, August 9. . It is unofficially stated that the crew of His Majesty's sloop Geranium, which is cruising in nO-theni waters, refused duty, mutinying, owing to alleged hard conditions and bad food. it is stated five members of the crew are being brought back to Sydney by the cruiser Melbourne. No official statement bag been made. THE ICE ACE. Sydney, August 9. Professor Gregory, of Yale University an eminent geologist, who is attonkng the pan-Pacific Conference, inte-'mewod regarding Professor Horditnann's statement regarding a recurrence of the ice age, said: "1 think wo arc due for something of the kind. The last great expansion of ice occurred twenty to twenty-five thousand years ago. There have been four or five similar advanced from tho Poles, with warm periods intervening, and another is to be expected. "When it happens all the highland* will get glaciated and the world will undergo changes. The North American continent down to tin G eat Lakes will disappear. Switzerland, Scandinavia, Scotland and part of England will bo wiped out and also a largo part of Asia, notably Siboria. '"From the Antarctic bide a large slice of tho South American continent, including Chile, will bo overrun by i'co. The southern pottion of New Zealand will suffer, but Australia., seemingly has nothing at all to fear."