AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 96, 23 December 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

RAIN AND TELEGRAPHY

. Press Association —Copyright. (Reed. 10.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 23. The soaking general rain which continues, is seriously interfering with telegraphic communication.

WHEAT IN AUSTRALIA.

(Reed. 10.45 a.m.)

SYDNEY, Dec. 23

As a result of it being discovered that some wheat was arriving in Sydney it was shipped out of the Stale. The Government proclaimed all wheat arriving in the Metropolis to be Government property.

FRENCH - AUSTRALIAN LEAGUE.

(Reed. 10.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 23

A meeting of French citizens termed a Frcnch-Anstralian League for the purpose of assisting the French Red Cross work, or the dependents of French or other Allied soldiers. AUSTRALIAN-PRIZE COURT. (Reed. 10.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 23. : Leave was granted the owners and Charterers of the captured ship Zambesi to appeal to the privy Council. EDUCATION CONFERENCE. NEW ZEALANDERS WELCOMED,*- ■" (Reed. 10.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 23. Mr McKenzie, a New' Zealand inspector of schools, and Mr Menus, anoither New Zealand Educationalist, were welcomed at the Teachers’ Conference.

TASMANIAN FARMERS ASSISTED

£15,000 WORTH OF SEED WHEAT.

(Rec. 10.45 a.m.) HOBART, This Day,

; The Assembly has appropriated £15,000 for the purchase of seed wheat for farmers, owing to war and drought conditions.

CHEAP CABLES TO EGYPT.

(Rec. 10.45 a.m.)

This -Day.

Arrangements have been made for sending cheap week-end cables to thi troops at Enca, in Egypt.

A NEW ZEALANDER'S GIFT,

TO SYDNEY'S CREW,

(Ree. 10.45 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, This Day,

iMr. Pearce (Minister for Defence) has received from Mr. Deane, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, a cheque for £IOO as a present to the crew of the Sydney, in recognition of their luck and pluck in capturing the Emden.

THE MISSING ENDEAVOUR

(Ree. 10.45 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, This Day,

•The steamer Werribbee, searching iVr the Endeavour, sent a wireless rept••rting heavy weather. There is no sign of the missing trawler.

BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.

AUSTRALIA'S ENORMOUS LOSS.

(Ree. 10.45 a.m.)

MELBOURNE This Day

In the Assembly, Mr. Eiuslie stated that the loss at the Maffra sugar factory last year totalled £10,304, Th® Minister for Agriculture declared that if the loses of the previous year were repeated this year the Government would not again ask Parliament to repeat the experiment.