AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 67, 18 November 1914, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Press Association —Copyright, (deceived 9.50 a.in.) SYDNEY, November 18. Miss Muriel Escott won the New South Wales ladies’ sprint championship. At the wool sales there was good competition for superior merinos and satisfactory prices were obtained with crossbreds. There was a heavy fall in the opening rates. Greasy to 13^d. ■ The Mayor officially opened the Council's cold storage works. They are considered to be the best installation in the southern hemisphere. The works cost £BB,OOO. MELBOURNE, November 10. Judge Murray, Lieutennat-Governor of Papua, has been appointed Administrator of German New Guinea and the adjacent islands. Mr. Fetherbridge, Secretary of the Defence Department, has bean appointed administrator of the Marshall's, Carolines and otheif islands. Edward Edwards cf Eichengruen, managing director of the Continental Cautchouc and Gutta Percha Company ’ia s been arrested and interned by the military authorities The prohiblion of the export of news, papers has been removed. The annual inter-state eight-oar and sculling championship has been postponed till 1916 on account of the war. At the wool sales there was keencompetition and good prices excepting; for faulty and inferior wools, which remained unchanged. .Rates showed