AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2753, 24 April 1916, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

MUNIFICENT LEGACIES

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Perth, April 22. Ihe will of tho late Sir Winthrop Hackott, newspaper proprietor, provides for a number of munificent legacies, including £18,000 to endow a chair of agriculture at the university, £5000 for tlie Anglican Grammar School, and £5000 lor the augmentation of 'the Incomes ol the Anglican clergy of Perth j the investment or £50,000, the accumulated interest of which is to bo devoted in equal parts to the erection of a university hall for assisting poor scholars to obtain univorsity training and to the erection of a University Church College; £3000 for the purchase of pictures for the Art Gallery, audi£4ooo to the Acclimatisation Society. MAN WITH A REVOLVER. WOUNDS AND BOBS CHINESE. Sydney, April 22. A masked man walked to "an open window of a house at Auburn, occupied by four Chinese. Without warning, he shot a Chinese with a revolver. Then ho entered the house and shot another, who had been attracted by the shot, and walked into an adjoining room and shot a third Chinese. He-locked the fourth in a bedroom. After ransacking the victims' pockets, he departed, leaving no clue. Two of the Chinese are seriously wounded. REFORMS FROM WITHIN, ' LICENSED VICTUALLERS TAKE ACTION. Melbourne, April 22. The Victuallers' Association is tak* ing drastic action to remove the practices inimical to the trade. They are picking out certain hotels to-' see that their business is conducted properly. If .after a caution drunkenness is permitted, the. association's solicitor will oppose the renewal of the license. STATE FIRE INSURANCE. ESTABLISHED IN QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, April 22. The Government announces the establishment of. State fire insurance. STRAIGHT TALK TO LABOUR. CANNOT BE CRITICS OP THE WAR. (Rec. April 23, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, April 23. Speaking at the annual conference of the Political Labour League, Senator Pearce (Acting-Federal Premier) referred. to the tendency in some dirctions to regard some phases of the Labour movement as apart from the war and the national life, as if they were separate from the Labour movement ' and Labour's hopes'" and fears. He warned them that no part of the movement could afford to stand aside and be the critic of .the war. The movement must express itself through the war. Regarding conscription, Senator Pearce declared that the polioy of the Government was voluntary enlistment, and before there was any change or policy the Labour Party, and probably tho people, Vould be consulted. He also announced that the Government would introduce a Ml to tax war profits. RECORD CROWDS. „ AT SHOW AND RACES. ■ . (Rec. April 24, 0:55 a.m.) . Sydney, April 23. Thore_ was a record crowd at the show, sixty-seven thousand attending, and at the races.fifty thousand. CONSCRIPTION. TO BE OPPOSED BY LABOUR. (Rec. April 24, 0.55 a.m.) Melbourne, April 23. The Labour Conference has pledged itself to oppose conscription.