AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2703, 24 February 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SEQUEL TO LIVERPOOL MUTINY CASULA CAMP TO BE CLOSED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, February 23. The camp -decentralisation scheme ia proceeding. TJie Casula Camp will be closed oil March 1. Xew recruits will ,bo sent to country camps. Concentration at Liverpool Camp will be reduced. The city recruiting, -iopots. are being closed, and medical officers are to make a nightly round of the suburbs to examine recruits who are being entolled. ' WAR BABIES. JJEMOVfNG THE BRAND OF ILLEGITIMACY. ( Melbourne, February 23. The State Cabinet has decided to in troduce' legislation to establish the ■ legitimacy of war babies. The Premier stated that the Government had been inundated with letters from soldiers at the front asking for legitimisation of children. The letters ivero received within an hour: before or after the departure of the men. BARRIER STRIKE DISTRESS' FUND AUSTRALIAN WORKERS' UNION DECLINES AID. Sydney, February,23. The Australian Workers' Union ro. fused to lend the Australian Miners' Association a further £IQQQ to relieve strike distress. FATAL JOKE WITH A REVOLVER, CHARGE ■OF MURDER. Sydney, February 23. Raymond Victor Dawson, charged with the murder of Vera Slay Parks last month, was sentenced to six months' iroprisonmeut. [The tragedy took plaoe at Fitzroy. Dawson gave himself up to police and confessed to fatally -shooting the - woman. He said he followed Parks into tho kitchen of a house, carrying a revolver which he supposed ivas unloaded. 13» jokingly said lie would shoot the woman, who replied: "You could not shoot a worm." Jestingly, he levelled the revolver and pulled the trigger. Instead of an audible click, the Revolver went off, killing tho woman. Dawson was arrested.'on a charge of murder.] WHEAT PRICES FIXED.' ' e TO REGULATE THE PRICE" OF BREAD. (Rec. February 23, 9.50 p.m.V Melbourne, February 23. The Wheat Conference has granted, as frotfi April 1, a further i-dvance of Gd. per bushel for.- farmers' wheat, and fixorl the price for home consumption, as from March 1, at 4s. 9d., enabling tile 41b. loaf to be sold at 7Jd. t 1 BIG WHEAT SALE. '• Melbourne, February 23. A report submitted ■to the Wheat Conference computes the value of the i wheat sold at five millions, an average of ss. a, bushel. TWO BIPLANES FOR SYDNEY AIR SCHOOL. Sydney, February 23. Two biplanes imported for the aviation school hav-s arrived. GOOD RAINS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. (Rec. February 24, 0.40 a.m.) Sydney, February 23. Good general monsooual rains l ave fallen, and the weather is cooler.