Australia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 83, 14 March 1916, Page 5

Australia.

3 "■':*,A-.-,/ 1 i .-<■ , v CASUALITY LIST NO. 152. [Urn-run Vim* A*booia«on.l (Received 9.25 a.m.) Sydney, March 14. Injured.—Private B. A. Smith. 111. Gunner W. P. Guinney, Private J. C. Peterson, P. E. Thomson (hospitalled at Cairo). Out of danger.— Private J. E. Cousidine. Returnee! to duty.—Privates D. Fryer, T. W. Wilson, H. W. Adamson, F. J. Malthouse. J . ' •;,'.•.. GAS AS A NECESSARY COMMODITY. {Received 9.25 a.m.) Sydney, March 14. The Equity Court dismissed the Gaslight Company's application for an injunction restraining the Commodities Commission from declaring that gas was a necessary commodity, the Court holding it was a necessary commodity. It might be explained that the prices of necessary commodities are subject to review by the Necessary Commodities Commission.

FIJI AND THE COMMONWEALTH (Received 9.25 a.m.) Sydney, March 11. Mr Hedston, member of the Fiji Legislative Council, has arrived. He denied' that Mr Hu S hes' cabled statement that the desire existed in Fiji to he merged into the Commonwealth. He added that if fate decreed that Fiji should be annexed to Australia or New Zealand, they would rather have the latter. FAIR RENTS COURT. FIRST CASE DECIDED. (Received 9.23 a.m.) Sydney. March 14. The first case was heard under the Fair Routs Courf, when Mr Fingleton M.L.A., was granted a reduction from eighteen shillings to sixteen shillings.