AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2567, 15 September 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

REINFORCEMENTS DOUBLED IQ,6QQ-A MONTH TILL NOVEMBER. ABSoclation-OoDyxiglit Melbourne, September 14. Senator Pearce (Minister for Defence) states that the authorities are able to equip all who offer. The military authorities have no power to release men from training for agricultural wo;k, but there will be no objection to fanners deferring their training for a few weeks after enlisting. The authorities state that double the Usual number of reinforcements are being dispatched, 10,500 leaving monthly until November,'when the quota will be raised'6ooo monthly. No uew units are being formed. 27,345 IN TRAINING IN VICTORIA, Melbourne, September 14. . There are now 27,845 men in training m Victoria. This is the greatest number during the war.

A MONTH'S ENLISTMENTS IN QUEENSLAND. . Brisbane, September 14. Tli'a August enlistments totalled 3013. THE SPORTSMEN'S BATTALION, i Sydney, September 14. There are many complaints in oonneo tion with the Sportsmen's Battalion! The men have been drafted to various camps instead of being kept together. There are alroady 600 in camp. , UNIVERSAL SERVICE.- ■ ■ Sydney, September 14. The Councils of the Chamber ot Commerce and the Employers' Federation have both deoided to support tha Universal Service League. THE "MOVIES" FOR RECRUITING(Reo. September 14, 10 p.m.) Melbourne, September 12. _ The Federal War Committee has decided to use tlio kinematograph .as a means of stimulating recruiting. AN "I.WTWV 7 POSTER. (Reo. September 14,. 11.30 p.m.) Sydney, September 14. The editor of a paper connected witft the "1.W.W." organisation, was fined £50 on a charge of publishing a poster contravening the War Precautions Act. The poster read: "To Arms I Capitalists, Parsons,' Politicians, Landlords, Newspaper Editors, and Other Stay-at-Home Politicians, Your Country Needs You in the Trenches 1 Workers, Follow Your Masters!" • He also was fined £20 for issuing the poster without the name of its printer and publisher. WHY THE PREMIERS' MEETING ADJOURNED. PROSPECTS FOR RAISING MONEY. (Reo. September 14, 11.40 p.m.) Melbourne, September 14. • One of the reasons for adjourning, the Premiers' Conference till September 24 was that by that time the outlook for floating loans in Britain may have improved. The discussion disclosed tha fact that 'the conference recognised that drastic economy in the expending of public, money was imperative in all the States. Only urgent' works should be undertaken, but there should be no curtailment until the prospects of obtaining loans are absolutely known. TROUBLE BREWING WITH THE MINERS. A STOP WORK NOTICE. (Rec. September 14, 11.40 p.m.) Sydney, September 14. As the outcome of the refusal to grant the miners' demand for increased pay, every colliery manager in the New- . castle and Maitland districts to-morrow morning will receive a notice that the employees will cease work on September . 27. '■ SMALLPOX IN SYDNEY. TWENTY-SEVEN CASES. Sydney, September 14. Therq, are two smallpox cases at' New« oastle. Twenty-seven cases have been isolated in Syduey. SHIPS' OFFICERS' DEMANDS. ALL-ROUND INCREASE IN SHIP- ■ PING TRADE. . Sydnei, September 14. . 'Shipowners are perturbed by a circular issued by the Merchant Service Guild to members, asking for an allround increaso in connection with tha coastal and inter-State trade. A special general. meeting is- to be called for the 20th inst., when a resolution, will be moved to the effect that owing . to the depreciation in the purchasing power of a sovereign, the present wages conditions are unbearable, and that itis proposed to notify employers that unless thoy immediately concede the terms claimed'in January, 1914, together with • the difference in. wages from that date, . aud the claim also of additional increases, varying from 2J to 20 per cent., the members will withdraw from the service until conditions have been properly adjusted. WANTED:.TEN BUSINESS MEN. FOR RED CROSS DEPOT IN EGYPT, Sydney, September 14. Mr. Aiidrian Knox, of tne Red Crosf Commission in Egypt, has cable for sii business men capable of handling goods, and four suitablo' for an inquiry department. TRADE WITH THE ENEMY. APPEAL IN SNOW CASE QUASHED. Melbourne, September 14. The Federal High Court has, quashed the Commonwealth appeal in the Snow . cases on the grouiid that it could not • examine the validity ,of previous proceedings except so far as they appeared: as a record! [In May last, at Adelaide, Francis Hugh Snow was charged with attempting to trade with the enemy. The case ibruptly terminated, Mr. Justice Gor-. :lon deciding that there was no evidence to go to the jury.] ITEMS IN BRIEF. PATRIOTIC CRICKET. Melbourne, September 14. The Victorian Cricket Association has decided to play matches with New South IVales, the proceds going to the patriotic funds. > . TRADE UNIONS AMALGAMATE. Sydney, September 14. It is announced that the Railway Workers and General Labourers' Association has reached an agreement with ;ho Trolley and Draymeirs Union. In 'iiture the two bodies will work practically as one union in all disputes.