Australia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 89, 17 April 1915, Page 6

Australia.

ACTOR'S TEP JtY.C£RHA|tY, United Pap* Association. Received 9.5.0 a.m.)’ Sydney, April 17. r Air Robert Parker, of the Quinlan Qpeija Company, who has returned to Sydney, states that all his savings were invested in Germany, where he had been studying, and that the Kaiser’s advisers appropriated the lot. N.S.W. MONTHLY QUOTA FQR ’ THE BELpiAN FUND. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Sydney, April 17. Besides £40.000 in March, the State has already remitted April’s quota of £30,000 to the Belgian Fund. V ' ' HEALTH REPORT FROM EGYPT. (Received 9.50 a.m.) Melbourne, April 17. General Bridges reporting on the health of the troops in Egypt, says it is' generally good, most of the deaths being due to pneumonia supervening on measles and influenza. An outbreak of smallpox occurred during January and February in a severe form, having been contracted in Cairo. There were eight cases and two deaths, but it .has since been stamped out. The conduct of the men has been good. He gives a fujl denial to the reports stating otherwise. ]yir Pearce '.Minister of Defence) adds his official denial to General Bridges,”

M ISCELLA NEP US.

•Melbourne, Aprjl 16. The House passed a special War Supply Bill for £3,130,000. The esti- ■ mate, of war expenditure to the end of June was 10} millions. This had already gone and the estimate would be exceeded to tire extent of 3* milr lions. A motion against increasing the j salaries of civil servants receiving over I £3OO during the war was negatived. Mr Ifisher said the Government had • decided that a percentage reduction ; was inadvisable, a., its stoppage on ■ Salaries of over C3OO would save only £62(j. Sydney, April 16. The Druids’ Grand f/odge haa handed £IOOO to the Lord Mayor’s Fund, the proceeds of a patriotic art union. Tire M.iljiops Club asks Mr. Fisher to , place a surtax on all enemy goods. Perth, April 16. P' Mr Price, Labour member, for Ali i bar.y, has enlisted, [ ■