AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2602, 26 October 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

HIGH COMMISSIONERSHIP SIR GEORGE REID 'AND THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT. By Telegraph—Pres6 Association—Copyright - (Rec. October 25, 8.15 p.m.) Melbourne, October 25. .The correspondence between the Federal Government and Sir George Reid in reference to the non-renewal of his appointment "as High Commissioner, ■with the letters setting out the terms of the appointment, has been published. Sir' George Reid points out that he gave up a career at the Bat and the Federal House, representing £4000 per annum-, to take a position involving , great expense, which had been looked upon as official, and not an uncertain political post, entitling him to expect a renewal for another term if his discharge of his duties should be satisfactory. Subsequently he received animplied promise of renewal from the Cook Government. : . '

The correspondence concludes with a lottor from Mr. Mahon (Federal Minister for Home Affairs), stating; "This Government declines to recognise the iright 'of a previous Government to bind ■its successors by a verbal arrangement in respect to future vacancies in the public service." LOOSE METHODS WITH ARMY CONTRACTS. ECHO OF THE KIDMAN OASB. * Melbourne, October 25. Tho Minister. of Defence (Senator (Pcarce), referring .to . tho jury's comment on tho Kidman case on the loose ' metho'ils in the Defence Department, said they referred to the mobilisation orders giving the District Commandants power regarding contracts. Long before this case of irregularity was discovered the mobilisation orders had been repealed. THE MAKING OF WAR MUNITIONS. ■ : QUESTION OF VOLUNTEER LABOUR. Melbourne, October 25. , Tho Federal Government does not intend to- use voluntary labour in the manufacture of munitions until the , labour market is exhausted. THE WHITEHALL MYSTERY. IDENTITY OF THE WOMAN. -• (Rcc. October 25, 10.25 p.m.) Perth, October 25. In connection with the Whitehall tragedy in Melbourne, it is stated that a Miss Lottie Williams, employed in the Audit Office,-had obtained a month's' leave about the same time as Greenwoodj and left on an eastward-bound steamer.

[The bodies of a young .unidentified man and woman were discovered in a bedroom at Whitehall Chambers, where they had been resident for some weeks. Tlioy had not been seen for some days, : nnd; the odour from tl)o room led to the forcing of tho door. ' A peculiar feature of tho case was that while the body of the woman was badly decomposed, and lad apparently been dead for a week, tho man had only been dead a couple of days. The detectives discovered a Perth Savings Bank book with the name Albert Edward Glenwood, corresponding with tho initials on the man's clothing.] ITEMS IN BRIEF. THE LABOUR STRIKE AT LIVERPOOL CAMP. Sydney, October 25. Tho carpenters and bricklayers at Liverpool Camp are resuming work. SOAKING RAINS IN VICTORIA. (Rec. October 25, 8.5 p.m.) Melbourne, October 25. Soaking rains have fallen throughout the. State.

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