AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2745, 14 April 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

STRONGEST ARGUMENT FOR - CONSCRIPTION i\ SENATOR PEAROE'S VIEWS. By Association-Copyright Melbourne, April 13. Replying to a deputation from the /Australian Natives' Association, urging conscription,' Senator Pearce said the v "I strongest argument for conscription was that the State could exercise discretion' - as to who was sent and who should remain. • He did not think that.more men frould be sent under conscription than under the operation of voluntary enlistment. ' , "■'... V Referring to the war census, Senator Pearce stated that 120,000 single ■ men between eighteen and forty-four had ; refused to enlist. He thought that at ,' present there were plenty of men available, and that conscription was unnecessary. " . ' .-, "'"''.' NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS < STATE BAKERIES BILL THROWN OTJT. fEtec. April 14, 0.55 a.m.) ,'' .\ Sydney, April 13. The Legislative Council has slaughtered another Government measure, rejecting the ;State Bakery Bill by a big majority. » Speaking in the Assembly, Mr. Hoiman announced that the Liquor Referendum would be held about June 6. HALF A MILLION INSURANCE AT '. • STAKE. ■LIFE : OFFICE AND PUBLIC : :,:■ ■•■ ECONOMY. Sydney, April 18. ' At the annual meeting of the City Mutual Life Association, the chairman stated that the society had fully half a million at stake on the lives of 2500 soldiers. In urging the need for private and public economy, the chairman said the- extravagant expenditure of public money was one of the reasons tthicn had led him in asking.." his co-directors -to come down to 3 per oent. in valuation,' and to withdraw £100,000 from the funds. to strengthen the inner reserves. ' r , TASMANIAN CABINET RESIGNS; LIBERAL LEADER SUMMONED. ' (Rec. April 13, 11.55 p.m.) - • .... Hobart, April 13.r„.\. ~.,.The v Earle Ministry (Labour) has r&i Bignedyand Mr. ; W-. Leo ■■ (Libornl leader) has been commissioned to form r. Ministry. : ' ITEMS IN BRIEF. IS GAS A NECESSITY? •". Sydney, April IS. ' The HighCourt'dismissed tho appeal against the declaration that gas is. a, necessary ' commodity.: - SOLDIERS' MAILS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. Fremantlo, April 18. A lieutenant-colonel who has arrived by'the Kashgar states that most of tho charges against the postal administra? tion in the Mediterranean are ground- . less. • KILLED ON THE RAILWAY. • Sydney, April 13. James Angus, a railway contractor, aged 81, was run over and killed on tho railway. In his younger davs ho was prominently connected 1 with the develop' meat of the New Zealand railways. NORTH SHORE BRIDGE SCHEME THROWN OUT. : Sydney, April 13. Being opposed to such large commit- - ments m war time, the Legislative Council-threw out the North Shore bridge scheme, which involved an outlay of £1,750,000 • . ,