AUSTRALIAN NEWS
MENINGITIS SPREADING RAPIDLY BECOMING EPIDEMIC^ By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, May 30. The meningitis outbreak is spreading rapidly. There were 33 cises in the past week, principally in the metropolis. SENSATION IN WOOL CIRCLES. THE EXPORT RESTRICTIONS. _ Sydney, May 30. . A sensation has been caused in woolbroking circles at the piohibition of exnort of wool from the Brisbane sales. Tho secretary of the Wool Brokers' Association states that if the embargo is not lifted it will be useless to sell. I ENGLISH'BUYERS PLEASED. ' r , London, May ?9. English' wool buyers' are gratified at the Australian prohibition of wool for export outside the Empire. ANTI-CONSCRIPTION. A LABOUR AGITATION. ' (Rec. May 31, 1.10 a.m.) Sydney, May SO, The conference of tho industrialist section of the Labour Party views with grave concern the possible extension of the British Compulsion Act to British residents abroad, and calls on the Labour movement to strenuously resist conscription in any form being applied to the citizens of Australia. ITEMS IN BRIEF. THE LIQUOR REFERENDUM. Sydney, May 30. It is announced that all hotels will : close on the liquor lefcrendnm polling | day: ■" j SOUTH COAST COLLIERIES AGAIN BUSY. Sydney, May 30. Excepting Mount Pleasant, all the Sojitli Coast collieries are again working. PRICE OF BRANDY ADVANCED. Sydney, May 30. The city hotelkeepers have advanced j the prices of best . brandies eighteenpence per bottle. ' ' .
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2784, 31 May 1916, Page 5
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226AUSTRALIAN NEWS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2784, 31 May 1916, Page 5
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