AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2584, 5 October 1915, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

FEDERAL METALS CONTROL

ALLEGATIONS DENIED

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyiiglit

Sydney, October 4. The Attorney-General (Mr. "W. M. Hughes) .emphatically denies statements regarding the holding up of munitions metal. The Commonwealth acquisition of metals,is under the-British Government's instructions in order to pre- ; vent exploitation and to ensure suppUes reaching; Britain. [A prominent' mine director, it was reported last week, declared with knowledge and deliberation that the Imponal and Commonwealth authorities in hold-: ing up all Australian supplies of wolfram, molybdenite, scheelite, and other alloys are playing ;into' the; hands of their enemies.' Owing to, the creation of a now. metal exchange and the fixing of prices, nearly a hundred thousand pounds' worth of: munitions, metal is locked up.]

SHELL-MAKING IN AUSTRALIA

(Rec.-Ootober 5, 1 a.m.) • Brisbane, October 4. The Federal Defence Department has accepted the'railway commissioners' offer to' supply fifty thousand 18-pounder high explosive- shell bodies at a minimum; rate of 2500' a week, commencing on December 18, , > : • ,

THE EIOHT HOURS' DAY DEMON' STRATION. ONE OF THE FINEST YET HELD. <

•••••. (Rec. October 4,'9.50 p.m.) 1 Sydney, October 4. Favoured by fine weather, tho annual eight' hour demonstration, both as to tlie numbersrparticipating-and tho emblematic designs displayed, was one ot the-'•finest ..ever...,.witnessed., „• Intermingled with tho usual allegorical trade displays there: were many designs , bearing on the, war, and representing.tua part played by-tho'workers. • I - , . A feature of.the uay was the iarge number of'uniformed soldiers who were marching in their respective unions, bor . sides a strong company of the Expedition ary Force, specially detailed to par-, ticipat© in tlie procession, .. S'hicu' ' was two' miles in length. Great .crowds along the route aud on the ' Sports Ground gave the soldiers a splendid ,reception. ■ PLANTER MURDERED AT THE SOLOMONS. ■ AN INEXPLICABLE DEED. Brisbane, October 1. A well-known Sydney planter-trader named Laycock has been murdered at the Island of Makira, in the Solomon Group. He was engaged in a • recruiting tour, and was standing in a dinghy talking to a recruiter when a native suddenly, struck him oil tho neck With an axe, almost severing his"head; The crime is inexplicable, -as the Makira ; hoys were - quite. well know n. to and liked Laycock. : ' The murdersr : escaped to the bush.MENINGITIS IN CAMP.' OUTBREAK IN TASMANIA.' "Hobwt, October 4._ There is an outbreak of meningitis at Claiemont Camp. Nine-cases have been reported. THE SMALLPOX OUTBREAK. FIFTY-SEVEN CASES ISOLATED. .: Sydney, October 4. Fifty-seven smallpox cases are iso-- , lated at the Stockton Hospital, , near Newcastle. BREWERY DESTROYED BY FIRJG. • Perth/ Ootoßer 4. Fira destroyed Hannau's browory atParkeatown, Kalgoorlip; Tho damage «> estimatod at Slo,oooi. , v .