AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2715, 9 March 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SHIPPING PROFITS i MELBOURNE S.S. COMPANY By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyrigliS . . Melbourne, March 8. I At the half-yearly meeting of tlia .! Melboarne Stoamshit* Cuitpany, it was : j stated •• the 0110 ■of the company's i steamers could have been sold to over- i sea buyers at a profit equal to that ! earned by the company's fleet in sis j months.' * j THE PRICE OF BREAD. j A MINISTER SURPRISED. j Sydney, March 8. ! Tha Hon. D. R. Hall, State Minis. j tor of Agriculture, states that he_ ia j surprised at tlie Commonwealth fixing j the price of bread. Ho is confident | that no business will make 8 per cent,. j & year selling at the proclaimed price,- : A GIRL'S ESCAPADE. A i | STOWS AWAY ON A' TRANSPORT. j (Rec. March 8, 10.5 p.m.) i . . Sydney,. March 8. | Maud Butler, aged 18, who was found i stowing away on a transport towards i the end of December, again hoarded a/' . i transport, tricking the sentries by ieign- ; ing inebrity. Her false identification j disc betrayed her, and she was arrest- ; eel. She has promised not .to attempt I to stow aivay again. j [In December, failing to be accepted j for Red Cross work, she purchased l Eol- j dier's clothes, stole aboard at Sydney/ ' _; and hid in a boat. Having failed to '; provide herself with food, she bad to | come but and was detected. The object j of the escapade was to sge her solaier i brother in Egypt, and secure Red Cro£6 , j work at the front.] j ENEMY SUBJECTS. j TO BE DISFRANCHISED. ; : (Rec. March B,' 10.5 p.m.) , j Sydney, March 8. In the Assembly the Bill to Disfranchise ( Enemy Subjects was read a first time. 1 During the debate it was stated that i their voting strength was twenty thousand. . . !