AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2699, 19 February 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SHIPMENTS OF FLOUR HELD UP I By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, February 18. : Despite the Court's decision, tlia ■wharf labourers apparently classed the j Paloona as an overseas vessel, and Te- j fused to load seventy tons of flour. The' ; steamer piled without the flour. MUNITION MAKING. A SPLENDID OFFER. Sydney, February 18. . The Amalgamated Engineers liaya j offered to work sixty hours weekly at Walsh Island to facilitate munition-ma-king. RAILWAY TRAVELLING. CHEAP RATES FOR SOLDIERS. Sydney, February 18. The Commandant has arranged 1 1? issue to soldiers railway season tickef • at a shilling a week. COMMONWEALTH REVENUE. (Rec. February 19, 0:55 a.m.) Melbourne, February 18. ; The Commonwealth revenue for tho ■ lialf-year ended December 31, totalled ' £11,396,906, to winch must be added £10,400,000, raised for war loan, mak- ' i ing £21,796,906. Hie "expenditure amounted to £21,833,685, the chief item being £9,792,019 expended for war pup ; poses. | FIRE AT INVERELL. NEW STORE DESTROYED. Sydney, Fobruary 18. A firo destroyed the new 6toro of Ross, Ltd., at Inverell. The damage" ii I in the vicinity of £14,000. : TASMANIAN RAILWAY SMASHSTATEMENT BY THE DRIVER. - j Hobart, February 18. A passenger states that Goodchild, the driver of the express, before his ; death told him that a steam-pipe had burst in tho engine just before tho accident. ' •; HEAT WAVE IN MELBOURNE. ' '> Melbourne, February 18. Melbourne is suffering from a heii wave. It is 100 deg. in the shada.