AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2640, 10 December 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

THE NEW RECRUITING SCHEME •lIOAV IT IS TO BE DONE. By -releE rapt-Press Association- Copyright Sydney, December 3. Tlio recruiting scheme for the raising of a new army <.f fifty thousand men lias been issued. It is based on tlio I ipjota system: In conjunction with tho 1 local committees an appeal in writing >s ' to bo mado to. every able-bodied man, who is required to reply stating his intentions and. disabilities witli regard to enlistment, each, local conimiitee judging the adequacy of tlio answers. If the reasons against immedi-ito enlistment are valid there will ho relegation 'te a later class. If the Appn-.il is neglected'or »thc reply is" unsatisfactory, a personal appeal will be mndj>. Tiie local committees will be responsible to the State War Council, which will be i ('sponsible to the Federal War Council. • New South AValcs's share for the new army and for reinforcements 'or the eld and new units to June will be. 30,000 men. DEMAND FOR .THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE SCHEME. Brisbane, December 9. A deputation from,tlio. Industrial Council waited on Mr. Hughes, Federal Prime Minister, at Bundaberg, and demanded tho withdrawal of the new re cruiting scheme, especially the questions. 111'. Rjighes, in refusing, said if tho unions iS&BSed the Government conpulsion would not be necessary.. COMMENT IN VICTORIA. . Melbourne, December S. In tlio Legislative ■ Assembly, Mr. Pearce stated.that the personal inijuiries originally'instituted with regard to viic new recruiting -scheme had been considerably- .-modified. Tliii Assembly unanimously passed a motioii .undertaking cooperation with tho Federal Government. AUSTRALIA'S WAR BILL. .OVEIt FIFTY MILLION'S NEXT YEAR, Brlsaans, Dscember 9. SpeaKmg.at Jjunuuberg, Air. Hughes (Federal Prune Minister) estimated t;ext year's war expenditure at over fifty millions. , D.EAD-HEAT FOR SYDNEY , MAYORALTY. A tHOBLEM FOR LAW YERS.„" (liec. December 9, 10.20 p.m.) Sydney, December 9. As tlie Jesuit of -the polling for the election of- Lord Mayor of Sydney, Alderman Hogan and Alderman Dick Moagner, the only two candidates, ran a dead-heat. " • 4 The meeting of the City Council has been adjourned for a week in order to obtain legal opinion as to the position. Prior to 'the election, the council, on Alderman Gunher's motion, decided to reduce the Lord Mayoral allowance from £1500 to £1000.' STATE BREAD MOWOPOLY. ' ENDORSED BY CAUCUS, Sydney, December 9. The Caucus Anally endorsed Mr. : Hall's (Attorney-General) "--State Bread Monopoly Bill. * , : The-schemc will' cost £600,000, the Government resuming the whole •of the existing bak?:i;s m vthe . metropolitan area. Forty central '>al»- ! erics will be acquired, from winch-the ! present cart delivery will be continued. . Later on, -a central '-bakery will be equipped'with the most h.odern machinery, and a fleet of motors will replace the horse-carts of' the scattered bakeries. ■ The Operative Bakers'_ Union passed a resolution ' emphatically protestiuc i against the scheme, which, it is-'urged, i will mean the dismissal of hundreds of ■' workers." ' DEATH BY POISON. ; VERDICT IN WHITEHALL ; TRAGEDY. , i (R«c. December 9, 10.20 p.m.) Melbourne, Deeember 9. > At the adjourned inquest on the ciri- cumstances connected with the deaths of r Albert Edward Greenwood and Lottie ' Williams, a verdict .was returned to the ■ effect that poison, had been, admmisfcer- • ed by Greenwood with the intention to ' murder himself and Williams. : [The bodies of a young man and wo- ■ man wore discovered in a bedroom at > Whitehall Chambers, in Melbourne, ■ where they had been resident for some ■ weeks.- - They had .not been- seen for \ some days, and the odour from the > room led to the forcing of the door. 1 A peculiar feature of the case wrs that ■ while tho body-of the woman was badly decomposed, and had apparently beein 1 dead for a week, the man had only been 3 dead a couple of days. They had for--1 mcrly been employed in the Audit. 3ei partment of the West Australian Gov- - crnment.] ! ) j 3 THE STANMORE MURDERS. f PLEA OF INSANITY FAILS.,' j. (Eec. December 9, 10.20 p.m.) s Sydney, December 9. 3 , Tuoker, the Stanmoro murderer, ha 6 t been sentenced to death. His plea of 9 insanity failed; . • t [Ail atrocious tragedy occurred at 5 Stanmore, resulting in the deaths of ; Mrs. Tucker and her brother (Ernest Matheson), 'hnd the attempted suicide i of the '■murderer, John Thomas Tucker, y, According to the story told 1 by Tucker's . fifteen-year-old son, the father was rc- . cently sent to gaol for not complying 3 with a maintenance order. Returning j c heme, he gained admittance to\ the t house by a . window, and tied 'his vifo ] to the bedpost, -where she remained all V night, while lie himself slept, also ketpt inf.- the boy in the room. Matheson s called 'the next morning and was rds niitted. Tucker, threatening with i.ie--3 volver, made 1 the boy bind Mathesou's eyes and hands. Tucker then beat j Matheson on the head; with' the butt of tho revolver till he was dead. Tucker n returned to bed and slept throughout j fcie day. The boy, worn out with watch . lug, was awakened during the night, by s his mother's cries, and found his fatiier t beating her. He r continued his S^rtd'sh a work till she was dead. Tucker then ;j shot himself. The boy escaped and _ informed the police.] | STRONG PROTEST FROM MASTER e BAKERS. s. (Rec. Deeember 9, 10.20 p.m.) Sydney, December 7. 0 At a general meeting of tho bakery a employers, a strong protest was entered • against the Stato bread monopoly. It « was decided ,to ask, before the scliemo is adopted, that tho Government should appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the commercial and financial aspects of tho scheme.

S ITEMS IN BRIEF.

STATE WHEAT PURCHASE. ' >f Sydney, Weeembor 9. The returns show that 5,069,331 '* bushels of wheat, .costing .i;1,i.67,334 'T have been acquired under tbe \Vhea | Acquisition ,Act. . ..