CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 September 1915, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

f ELHCTUIC TELKGKAI'H— COI'YBKJHJ. | I'l'ICR PKIiBS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 8.55 a.m.) - AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney. Thus Bay. The .Society of the Chemical Industry's Munition sub-committee is undertaking iwearelics with the object if making Australia independent of outside supplies ol : high explosives. Tlie Anti-Alien League is petitioning the Federal and State Parliaments requesting the internment oFall enemy aliens—un naturalised and uaturaliscd. Owing to the compulsory' conference fixed lor next Friday, the- Coal Employees Federation has rescinded Ito ultimatum, and fortnight's notice to cease? work, which would have expired on Monday, ponding a decision. MY 8. W. Thornton, secretary of fch» Mount Morgan Company, and formerly a prominent accountant in New Zealand, has boon appointed secretary to the committee of ten business men tvho will proceed to Egypt to administer (he Red Cross Funds. Two thousand pounds were offered for hifl services,