AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2644, 15 December 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

4 .—_ ANOTHER MILITARY RIOT » . . GREjEK FISH SHOP WRECKED. . fir Telegraph—Proas Association—OopyTishi • • _ Sydney, December 14. _ Another .military riot ocourred in the ■ city. Four hundred soldiers were concerned. A Greek fish shop was smashed ( up, aad _many_ persons were injured. The riot is believed to have been the ontoome of reoent, altercations between . ' soldiers: and the proprietors of 'oyster saloons. It was evidently'pro-arranged, for men who were loitering in the streets formed up at a bugle call and marched to the shop, which they bombarded with road metal and lumps of concrete. Forty police arrived, dispersed the rioters, and made many arrests. ' (Reo. December 14, 9.15 p.m.) - ' Sydney, December 14, During last night's riot a number of Soldiers scaled the Cathedral railings arid attempted 'to invade the' chapterhouse, where the ohoir was practising. The preoehtor met the mob and tactfully persuaded them to leave. " In fining' a' number of the participators the Magistrate remarked that the only explanation of their behaviour appeared to be that: a section of those who had enlisted did not desire to go to the front. "Having been trained at the expense of the country they refuse to fall in." THE SUPPLY OP MEN SIX MONTHS' REINFORCEMENTS ASSURED. Melbourne, December 14. Senator Pearce states that there are sufficient men in oamp to provide -reinforcements for the present forces for six months. One hundred thousand more men'' are wanted by June. He declares. that the early closing of hotels in Melbourne is a distinct advantage. TRADES HALL AND THE NEW ARMY. Malbourne, December 14. The Trades Hall Council carried a resolution in reference to the new army,, recommending the liembers belonging to affiliated unions to ignore the cards which the War Council is sending out. WAR POWERS' BILL. Sydney, December 14. In the Assembly the War Powers Bill was read the second and the third times. The Counoil amended the Liquor Bill to close the hotels at 9 instead of 10 P-m. • QUEENSLAND LAND ACT. PROTEST BY BANKERS AND , PASTORALISTS. • _ London, December 18. At a meeting of the Australasian Banks and Pastoral, Associations a resolution was passed emphatically protesting against the Queensland ' Government's. proposal to deprive lessees of the limitation on increased rent on pastoral leases and grazing selections. If the Amending Land Bill ■ becomes law it will seriously injure pastoralists' interests and interfere with the flow of British oapital to Queensland, awK shake the confidence entertained in Great Britain in the Queensland Government's good faith. NEW SOUTH WALES'LIQUOR BILL. (Rec. December 14, 9.15 p.m.) Sydney, December 14. The New South Wales Premier (Mr. Holman) proposes to ask the Assembly to disagree with the Council's amendment to the Liquor Bill. If the Council persists the measure will probably be dropped.