Australia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1915, Page 5

Australia.

THE WHEAT "CRAB." United Peess iAssooiatiOn. Melbourne, January 13. Before the Inter-State Commission, an application was made on behalf of the Commonwealth for an injunction to restrain the New South Wales government from selling or holding wheat, also for the New South Wales Farmers' and Settlers' Association to join as plaintiffs in the proceedings. Counsel for the New South Wales Government announced that he was instructed that the Government would refrain from selling the wheat vhich was subject to the plaint pending the hearing of arguments.

The Commission granted the Fanners' Association power to intervene, and fixed the hearing of the plaint for the 15th. ' :,J x "'' : '' "^''"- 4 CLERGYMAN CHANCES HIS NAME. Sydney, January 13. The Presbytery of Sydney endorsed the Rev. Hoisier changing his name to Reynolds. In asking pet mission, the applicant stated:. "My mother was English, and my father a German, though he never lived in Germany. In consideration of the treachery and barbarity committed by the German army, the awful horrors and desolation brought on a civilised world, a»d the hacking to pieces of the quiet and peace.loving Belgians, the German cation stands guilty of one of the blackest crimes of which man is capable, and therefore I no longer wish to be known as Hoisier."

TRADE WITH JAPAN. Sydney, January 13. The Chamber of Commerce tendered a reception to the members of the Japanese commercial delegation. The visitors urged'that the war had opened an unprecedented opportunity for increasing trade between 'Australia and Japan. In the past Japan had faced European competition. That was now removed. Japan offered a great market for Australian products. Japan was able to manufacture anything and Australia could absorb some of her manufacture. There would be no competition with English goods, which were of a different class. The Japanese Consul said the two countries must help, trust and rely on each other.