Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 82, 13 March 1916, Page 6

Australia

STATE MUNITION-MAKING. UNITTO P*KBB Asaooiatiou. (Received 10.15 a.m.) Brisbane, March 13. The Government has decided to defer giving the manufacture of niuitions to private firms until the resources of the Government are exhausted. The action as due to the Engineers Union objecting. to subletting shell-making. THE TALLEST AUSTRALIAN, NEARLY T FOOT OF KHAKI. (Received 10.10 a.m.) Sydney, March 13. Queensland claims the honor of sending the tallest . soldier to the front in the person- of Trooper Knickle, 'who is 6 feet 11 inches.

(Received 10.10 a.m.) ... . Sydney, March -13. The total casualties are:—Dead 6722, wounded 11.310, missing 1798, sick 21,318, prisoners "59, nature of casualty unknown 297, total 41,534. The Licensed Victuallers propose 9 o'clock closing o| hotels, and urge the Government not to hold the referemdum, as. it is, impossible to obtain a representative .opinion .when the country is in;a state ofiiyßteria, and,wish fifty thousand pi the male population absent. The., present campaign will cost the association and their opponents £30,000. ' The Chief Inspector of Mines classes the new gold area discovered in the Tumut district in July as important. The quartz assayed up to ten ounces ten dwts. per ton.; Speaking at the annual breakfast of the Irish National Foresters, Archbishop Kelly declared that secret sdcie--1 ies were very • strong at Liverpool Camp. It r the ; cry; of "Down, with ""elly!" was" raised, lie would answer, ' Down with Freemasons!"