Commonwealth Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 82, 11 August 1923, Page 6

Commonwealth Cables

Press Association—Copyright. (Received 11,20 a.in'.) Sydney, August 10. As the result of a conference between the Postmaster and the P. and 0. Company, a saving of two days# will be effected in the English mail. The P. and O. Company will eliminate Bombay as a port of call, and the trans-Continental train will leave Fremantle on Tuesdays after tire arrival of the steamer in hen of Thursday si each alternate week. The Orient Line is also adjusting its timetable to maintain new schedule. The Labor Councils in Sydney. Adelaide, Melbourne, and Perth have nominated Mr E. .3. Holloway, secretary of the Melbourne Council, as the Labour delegate to the Geneva Conference. The Practice Court, on a petition of the Bawra, agreed to a reduction of capital from £19,175,979 divided into 13,151,959 pound shares, and 11;848,041 ten shilling shares to £13,744,361 by returning to the latter shareholders nine shillings a, share. The Labor Party executive expelled for life Mr Bailey (member of the Assembly), Mr Smith (Legislative Councillor), Mr Buckley (ex-member of the Assembly), Alderman B/amston ( City Councillor), Mr Sutherland (Executive Member) foa the pa.pt they played in connection with the Sydney electorate selection, in which a ballot box with a sliding panel was used. Mr Minahan,i a member of the Assembly, was expelled for twp yearfor knowing of the fraud and not exposing it.

A lighter laden with nitrate of soda burst into flame! at the Sugar Company’s wharf, Pyrniont, and the cftrgb valued at £4OOO was? destroyed. The lighter burned to the water lino and sank. The Redhead miners passed a resolution refusing to resume work until the dispute was settled, notwithstanding exhortations of the Miners’ Council., .