CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 September 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

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(Received This Day, 8.1>5 a.m.)

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Sydney, This Day

Uwiig to a dispute regarding the diaciuirgo of an employee at Lithjjuw small Arms factory, a section ol the workmen have struck.

Tnc Government ceases to purchasewheat from the lariuers on the jOth.

Tno Hon. \V. Holnian stated that ilicie are no mi naturalized Germans ill the l'ublic Services, and only twenty - live naturalized Germans arc employed iu positions where they can do Jiltlo harm evou if disposed to. Enquiries regarding each individual are proceeding, and full information will bo published later.

Melbourne, This Day.

The High Court has delivered judgment hi the conspiracy case against Arthur Kidman and others. The Full Bench of six judges held that the indictment was valid in common law, but live of the judges dissented from the Chief Justice's opinion that under the constitution a law Coiikl not be passed after the act had been committed, declaring that the person who committed it was guilty of a criiie and liable to punishment. Sydney, This Day. The lion. W. Hulniau, speaking at an election meeting at Crow's Nest, was howled down. He never was able tc proceed for more than three minutes at a time owing to the interjections. .Mr Holman remarked! that it- was the .Stadium trouble over again. His Btatemeut that the Government -would work 'wheat areas, aaid go into munition manufacture was received with applause by the milder section of the audience, . the uproar iwaa terriiio when a man stood up asking: rf Do you think it a lair dinkum thing for men to volunteer when Germans are employed iu the l'ublic Service?" Mr Holman promised to make a statement on Tuesday. He said that ever since the recruiting campaign "Had skirted there had been a lot of young shirkers looking for excuses, of which the "German 017'' %vas one. Anyione would think there were 25,000 Germans in public positions.

Interjection: There are not many Australians holding office in Berlin.

This caused an upheaval. Throughout the meeting a strong section unmisbakeably iwas hostile to Mr Holman,

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