Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 31 August 1915, Page 5

Australia

MANUFACTURE OF DYES.

United Press Association. (Received 8.2(1 a.m.) Melbourne, August 31. A (Queensland committee is investigating the production of Kliaki Dye, and "tlie local Wools Committees is also investigating "the possibility of the manufacture of picric acid, frotyl. and iioluene. > \ .---'.-' ANTI-CAS APPARATUS. (Received 8.20 a.m.) -•.'--''! "Melbourne, August, 31, . , Mi* Pearce. in a statement on the work of the Federal Munitions roittee. says that an efficient anti-gas apparatus has been 'invented by scieii;. tistsi .'it the 'Melbourne University, 'whej-e a tliousijnd off them are being., mamifactured j from .specifications';' f|i\nples are being sent tor England, p fftATE AUCTION SALE OF JCEREAL, PRODUCTS. ' ' * ! : l (Received 10.15 a.m.) Perth, August 31.

At the sale bjfauction of the maize, ! bran, and pollard imported by the Government from the Argentine, six hundred tons of bran realised £3OO 1 2s; W, one. hundred tons of' pollard'.! 1 £s\)6 12s lid: and two hundred tons of lWize. £i'i%Mp.q?# on - I '-j mated the cost at £lO per ton. One- J third fn*H , hVT\'*H»l«*"f«ihiprnen t 'wnVrsVrtd *' 5

EX-NEW ZEALANDER WOUNDED.,

f (Received 10.15 a.m.) |] Sydney, August 3f. B. Booth, «\vfjo i s 'anmnVthe wounded, was formerly in Southland and 'Aucklaiuft,** J J '' : ''

THE REFERENDUM QUESTION

(Received 10.15 a.m.) Melbourne, August 31

In the House, in reply to Mr Cook's question whether, in view of the serious nature of the European outlook, the mounting number of casualties. and the disability of the people to eon--1 cent-rate on the subject, owing to the 'war, he would not postpone the refer? jenclum. Mr Fisher stated that the Government believed the referendum would not weaken, but strengthen Australia, therefore he would not postpone it. ' PREJUDICIAL TO RECRUITING. (Received 1-0.15 a.m.) Sydney. August 31. -

Lalor, who was charged with uttering a. statement calculated to prejudice recruiting, in that he stated that the war was a capitalist war and that the King and Queen should be shot, was lined -£IOO.