AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2871, 8 September 1916, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

EARLY CLOSING'AND ITS RESULTS ■Br Tclegrajiii-Piesa Association-Copyright (Bee. September 7, 11.15 p.m.) ■ Sydney, September 7. 'At the. request of the New South AVales Premier. (Mr. Holman), the In-spector-General ofv Police has' furnished . a report on, the effect of the early closing of. hotels. ' It is generally ad* mitted .that there has been a considerable decrease in the number of charges for drunkenness and assault, but an • increase in sly : grog-selling' is anticiEated, although visits to; tho leading otels and clubs disclosed the fact that the law was being rigidly observed. • ; SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING BILL IN . VICTORIA:Melbourne, September 7. The, State Government is. introduc- ■ ing a Bill providing for 6 o'clock closing of hotel and club bars during the • duration,of the war and for several months after the peace declaration.;

ITEMS IN BRIEF. ■ ; THE SLUMP IN RECRUITING.' (Rec. September 7, 11.15 p.m.) Melbourne, September 7i The enlistments for the first fivo • days of the month, in all States, total 1460, nearly four thousand short of -• tlio proportion of the 32,000 required. STRIKE OF SLAUGHTERMEN. (Rec. September 7, 11.15 p.m.) -:i .Sydney, September 7. The mutton trade is dislocated. The , slaughtermen at Glebo Island have ' Btruck, owing to the stoppage of their increased pay. • "SYDNEY MORNING HERALD," LTD. (Rec. September 7, 11.15 p.m.) Sydney, September 7. . The "Sydney Morning Herald" has . : been formed into a limited liability . ;• company, with a capital of £750,000. BILL TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Brisbane, September 7. • In the Assembly, Mr. Fihelly (Mlnister without portfolio) introduced a Bill providing for the abolition of capital punishment, the penalty instead to bo life imprisonment with hard labour. LIBEL ACTION AGAINST A NEWSPAPER. Sydney, September 7. The case in which Wilnelm Sundin and his wife claimed £5000 and £2000 . respectively from the newspaper "Mir- . ror for alleged libel concerning the ' totalisator. has been settled, the de- • fendants paying costs and publishing • an apology. The plaintiffs are Swedes. 1 AEOUR DISAPPROVES OF STATE GOVERNORS. Adelaide, September 7. ■ At the annual confercnco of the ■i ' United Labour Party a motion waß ■ carried in favour of the abolition of 2 Stato Governors.