AUSTRALIAN NEWS
(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) 1) FAMINE CONDITIONS IN SYDNEY. FOODSTUFFS MARKET EXCITED, (ilec. May 31, 10.15 p.m.) Sydney, May 31. Famine! conditions prevail, and the foodstuffs market is excited. People, by scrambling to obtain butter and sugar, almost created a panic. Tho Sussex Street wholesale merchants have been unable, to meet the demands of the trade. MEAT FOR THE ARMY. FURTHER SUPPLIES COMMAN- ■ DEEIUSD. Melbourne, May 31. The Hon. F. Hagclthorn (Minister of Public Works) states that owing to exporters failing to supply the meat required to fill Victoria's contracts, tho Imperial authorities liavc commandeered tho necessary Jieat. SALVING THE EMDEN. TENDERS CALLEDFOR THE WORK. Melbourne, May 31. The Defence Department is inviting tenders for salving tho Emden. Tho contract will provide -for handing over to the Navy all war material, money, and confidential documents found j aboard. Tho Government has first claim to purchase the salved hull. THE CERMAN ROUND-UP IN AUSTRALIA. QUESTION OF ACCOMMODATION. Sydney, May 31. The Government has allotted the disused Tria.l Bay pr'son buildings for housing the increasing number of detained Germans. ITEMS IN BRIEF. QUEENSLAND'S LABOUR CABINET. (Rec. May 31, 9 30 p.m.) Brisbane, May 31. The new Labour Cabinet includes: Mr. J. Rvan (party leader), and Messrs. E. G. Theodore Lennon, D. Bowman,J. M. Hunter, J. Adamson, and H. F. Hardacre, Ministers.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2476, 1 June 1915, Page 6
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220AUSTRALIAN NEWS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2476, 1 June 1915, Page 6
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