AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2482, 8 June 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

4 SHORTAGE OF SUPPLIES. MEAT, FLOUR, AND WHEAT. ! (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) 1 Melbourne, June 7. ! The State Government is blamed for ! the shortage of meat by shipping large i stocks to Europe, South Africa, British , East Africa, and India. ] Brisbane, June 7. i A Royal Commission has been appoint- : , cd to investigate the cost of the supply 1 and distribution of wheat and flour. i "AUSTRALIA DAY" FOR THE WOUNDED. ANOTHER HUGH WARD CAMPAIGN Sydney, June 7. ■ The patriotic funds total two and a quarter millions. Mr. Hugh J. Ward is organising an "Australia- Day" for July 30 to assist Australian wounded. OBITUARY. MR. FRANK MUSGROVE. Melbourne, Jun» 7. Obituary.—Mr. Frank Musgrove, theatrical manager. To all ivho met Mr. Musgrove during his recent visit to New Zealand as j manager of the Nellie Stewart Company (writes "Sylvius"), the news will come | as a great surprise, as Mr. Musgrove , was looking* particularly well whilst he j was in Wellington, and remarked that 3 he always felt at his best when in New j Zealand. Of the Musgrove brothers — a George, Harry, and Frank —the lastr named was probably the best known in j New Zealand. Prior to his last tour f with Miss Stewart, he had not been in s Wellington since Meynell and Gunn sent . him through New Zealand in charge of 5 the original "Fatal Wedding" Dramatic - Company. On his return to Australia s ho became associated with many veni tures. He was owner of the Criterion l Theatre and Hotel Sydney for a brief t period, a property he acquired from ono - of the banks and sold at a good profit, t Hp was also proprietor of a picture . theatre in Pitt Street, Sydney, for somo e years. His brothers are Mr. Geo. Musgrove, formerly partner with J. C. r Williamson, and Mr. Harry Musgrove, r manager of His Majesty's Theatre. Mely bourne, for J. C. Williamson, Ltd. e P DREADFUL TRACEDY IN A SUBURB, c , e FAMILY OF SIX DEAD, e (Rec. June 7, 11.5 p.m.) - o Adelaide, June 7. y A sextuple tragedy has occurred at p Hilton, a suburb of Adelaide. Carl e Adolphe Graf killed bis wife, and their k four children, ranging from eight to n fifteen, years, and then shot himself dead. |_ Jealousy is supposed to have been 6 cause. n SHOT IN THE BACK. ! )' (Rec. Juno 7, 11.5 p.m.) ® Sydney, Juno 7. ° A mysterious tragedy is reported. > J. Indabyne, a farmer, was about to enter his home, when he was fatally le sliot in the back. There is no tfiTe. n ITEMS IN BRIEF. y s SILVER LINING TO THE CLOUD. Brisbane, June 7. Cabinet has decided to restore the j public servants' increase of salary from , the beginning of the current financial 'o s'ear[l NEWCASTLE MINERS. (Rec. June 7. 11.5 p.m.) s Sydney, June s Five of the Newcastle coalmines are t idle owing to the slackness in tho trade, d =====