AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 156, 6 March 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

’I llh rH:HD UEGKim. CONDEMNED iN AUSTRALJA. Press AssocuU son - Copyright. (Reed. 9.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 6. Judge Docker, at the quai ter sessions, vigorously condemned submitting prisoners to the third degree. It was, he said, nothing loss than torture. English Judges always set their faces against the practice. STOCK CENSUS. BIG AUSTRALIAN DECREASE. (Reed. 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 6. The number of horses in New South Wales on the first of January, was 588,201', a decrease of 27,249. Cattlie 2,231,973, a decrease of 1.91,670. Sheep, 34,726,289, a clscnease of 3,273,273,c0mpared with 1913. The decrease in horses is attributed to the great demand for military purposes while the Jeer ease in cattle and sheep is caused by the drought and high prices now' obtainable. GOVERNMENT STOCK KILLING. FOR IMPERIAL PURPOSES. (Reed. 9.30 a.in.) - SYDNEY, March 6. When the new abbatoirs are ready in about three weeks, the Government will undertake the killing of stock for Imperial requirements. CASE OF SMALL POX (Reed. 9.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, March C. The steamer Gregory Ajcar has arrivied from Calcutta. A Lascar steward suffering from smallpox has been, quarantined.

THE TOTE BILL. (Reed. 9.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, March G. The Racir/g Club meeting supports Tote. Mr Ogden claimed; tbajt New Zealand's experience was conclusive proof of the benefits of the’ machine, its adoption also placing charity on a sound footing. TEA PRICES RISE. (Reed. 0.40 a.m.) ADELAIDE, March 6. Tea merchants advanced prices lid a pound. Bakers incresaed small goods by 10 per cent. A PEACE DEPUTATION. AN EMPHATIC REPLY. (Reed. 8.40 a.m.) BRISBANE, March 6. A deputation representing Peacd Societies asked the Methodist Conference to urge the abolition of war. Rev. Rowe, in replying for the Conference, said they valued peace, but not a peace at any price. They were in the war and would see it through, and they were doing that in the name of Christ. BELGIAN COLLECTIONS. (Reed. 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 6. The new Belgian Committee is busy, and has already over £SOOO subscribed. Other states are organising, PRICE OF DRINKS. SEVENPENNY NIPS FOR FIVEPENCE. (Reed. 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 6. Some hotels have dropped prices below the old rates, and are now selling sevenpenny nips for fivepence. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. (Reed. 12.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 6. The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 14 per cent, and a bonus of 12s. The following allocations were majs: Reserve: £20,000; premises account £10,000; carried forward £114,575. AUSTRALASIAN PATRIOTISM, SUVA, March 5. Major Sir Hamilton Goold Adams, Governor-elect of Queensland, interviewed here, said the pople at Home wore tremendously impressed by the way the Australasians came into the Empire’s fight, not only with regard to men, ■ but with magnificent gifts in money and in kind.