AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 157, 8 March 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Slavs in ~ 0 iyi>vr.uK DECLARE', loyalty . "n (Bp:*. 0.10 a.m.) SYDNEY. This Day. The editor of the Zora, the organ of the Damatian Slavs in New Zealand, have wrtteii to Mr. Ilolmnn fommendiiig a proposition to establish loyalty to relief fund, and expressing loyalty to Britain, and asking that certain Slavs, of pro-Austrian sentiments, be stopped from collecting money to assist Germany. FATAL COLLISION. " THREE MEN KILLED. ■ (Rec. 0.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Tamworth express collided, with a railway tricycle near Quirmbah, killgni a ganger named, o'Hara and his son and nephew. AN EGYPTIAN CANARD. DENIED BY THE MILITARY. (Rec 9.10 am.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The military authorities in Egypt contradct the cable reporting the death of four members of the Expeditionary Force through an accident while climbing the Pyramids. DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE. SIX MEN DROWNED. (Rec. 9.10 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. A cyclone at Bathurst, Melville Islands, damaged the Mission Station and wrecked a cutter. Six natives were drowned.

BAKERS' TROUBLES. DAYWORK PREFERRED. (Rcc. 9.10" a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The bakers' ballot resulted in favour of day-work. MORE SMALLPOX. (Ree. 9.10 a.m.) FREMANTLE, This Day. The steamer Umballa has arrived, with three Lascars suffering from smallpox. All were quarantined. AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. HON. CARMICHAEL'S MYSTERIOUS RESIGNATION. SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS PREDICTED. (Reed. 5.30 p.m.) SYDNEY March 7. There is much comment at the suddenness and mystery of the Hon. Carmichael's resignation. Many rumours are about including one that the Cabinet is not a happy family, and that there is intriguing for the Premiership. Lively caucus proceedinygs.and possibly sensational developments are predicted.