GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 146, 23 February 1915, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES

MADAM SARA BERNHARDT. AMPUTATION OF LEG NECESSARY. Press Association —Copyright. (Rce. 9.10 a.m.) PARIS, Feb. 22. Sara Bernhardt 'a right leg has been amputated. The patient is as well as can be expected. ■^■- THE WHEAT MARKET. NEW SOUTH WALES SUPPLY, MELBOURNE, Feb. 22. The Inter-State Commission delivered judgment in the Commonwealth Government's application for an injunction to restrain the New South Wales Government from interfering with in-ter-State trade in regard to the seizure of wheat under the Wheat Acquisition Act. The Commission, by two to one, upheld the Commonwealth plaint. Mr. Paddington, chairman of the Commission, formed the minority. N.S.W. APPEALS TO HIGHER COURT. SYDNEY, Feb. 22. New South Wales has been ordered to pay the costs of the wheat case, and has been given a month in which to appeal. Mr. Hall states that the Commission's decision will not be allowed an hour longer than it will take to refer it to the higher Oouvt, the one tribunal to which it belongs, and shoul; 1 have been submitted instead of spend* ing hundreds of pounds on the expensive farce enacted in Melbourne. One Commissioner, a learned lawyer, found that New South Wales had acted within its powers. It would not be thought for one moment that two gentlemen of no training whatever on legal and constitutional questions in dissenting from their chairman, are to be permitted to decide the limits ok power vested by the Sovereign in the Parliaments of the Australian States.

WAR LEGISLATION QUESTIONED, (Reed. 9.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 23. ' Mr Hall says that if the Commission's findings hold in connection with neecssary commodities all other special legislation relating to the war will have to go. He had already taken steps to secure final appeal to the High Court. * SOLDIERS AND DRINK. GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION, SYDNEY, Feb. 22. The over-liberal treatment of numbers of the returned New Guinea forces has drawn from the Hon. Hall a strong condemnation of the "shouting" system. Besides appealing to the soldiers' friends and admirers to desist from treating them to mistaken kindness, he is taking steps to rigidly enforce with the highest penalties the Act against supplying intoxicated persons with liquor, and to otherwise protect the soldiers from the temptationa of drinking. The military authorities are co-operating. Mr. Hall describes drunken soldiers as an abomination. DIVORCED FOR HER RELIGION. SYDNEY, Feb. 22. Professor E. P. Scott obtained a rule nisi of divorce from his wife (who is a daughter of Mrs. Annie Besant), on the ground that she changed her religion to the Roman Catholic, which she at times ascetically followed. She went to England and refused to rejoin him. A WHEAT SEIZED. > FARMERS WITHOUT SEED. J '- (Reed. 9:45 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. Owing to Inability to secure seed wheat to meet requirements of applicants, the Grain and Fodder Board has seized 300,000 bushels belonging ot iter, farmers, and it is expected more will be seized unless fanners place their wheat stocks on the markets.. THE BELGIAN APPEAL, jffl (Reed. 9.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, TaU Day Mr Fisher declares definitely he cannot state whether it is proposoi to take any action with regard to the latest Belgium appeal, but it is understood he is considering submission to Cabinet as to whether the Commonwealth should render further assistance.