AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 189, 19 April 1915, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

M.P_ ENLISTS. fJPr«S& ;A«S^iation;^^Spytlghi.) : ■ - -’ i April ' 16. Mr Price, labour member for Albany, has enlisted. ' "SYDNEY PATRIOTIC FUND. ...... ... SYDNEY,. /ApWl' 16. The Druids’ Grand. Lodge, handed £TOOO to the Lord Mayor’s fund, the proceeds of a patriotic art union. hush priced land. GOVERNMENT PAYS' £IQ(K) FOOT. I —y SYDNEY, This Day. The Government Savings Bank paid £IOOO per foot, for thirty feet of frontage in George Street. A RETURNED MUSICIAN. KAISER TAKES-HIS SAVINGS. >• SYDNEY, This Day. Robert Parker, of Quinlan Opera Company, has-returned to Sydney. He states that all his savings were invested in Germany, where he , had been studying. The Kaiser’s advisers has appropriated the lot. THE RUGBY LEAGUE. WIVES AND DEPENDENTS. TO BE PROVIDED FOR. tf>;f SYDNEY; This' Day. The Rugby’League has approved the principle of making provision for the wives and dependents cf players killed in action. THE LABOUR CONFERENCE.

REFERSNU UM NEG ATI VED. EARLY CLOSING CARRIED. '* i " SYDNEY, This Day. Th© Labour Conference, after negativing the 'D: j| •c.WD.m question, resolved by 53 to 47 that it is desirable to take immediate steps for closing of hotels and wineshops at six o’clock. Women delegates wer© divided, the majority voting in favour. One opposing delegate declared she had seen more drunkenness in th© closed area in New Zealand than in free ones. An influential petition is being signed asking the Lord Mayer to call a meeting to forward a mevemen-. to follow the example of the King’s Pledge during- th© war periltt. PRISON LABOUR. NOT TO COMPETE OUTSIDE. SYDNEY. This Day.. The Labour Cpnik-reyv-v* resolved that prison labour b© con fined to within prisons. Th© goods produced not to be allowed to compete with outside, DISTRESSING SUICIDE. MAN AND WOMAN SHOT. (Reed 9.50 a.m.) SYDNEYj This Day. Ih© bodies of a man and a woman were found in Princ© Alfred Park with bullet wounds in the head. The man was grasping . a revolver. Both were aead. From their 1 belongings it is supposed th© man is F. Farrell, and the woman Miss Marshall. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. THREE TRAINS DERAILED. SYDNEY—-MELBOURNE EXPRESS. SYDNY, April 17. The express from Melbourne, drawn by two engines, and the Temora mall train, met with a head-on collision at Binalong. Three engines wer© derailed and lour carriages damaged. So far as is known eight pasengers were injured, on© seriously. Nona were killed.

COMMONWEALTH’S WAR EXPENDITURE. v ESTIMATE EXCEEDED BY 3£ MILLIONS. SPECIAL SUPPLY BILL PASSED. MELBOURNE, April 16, The House passed a special War Supply Bill of £3,130,01)0. The estimate of the war expenditure to the end of Juno was 10£ millions. This ha s already gone and the estimate will b© exceeded to tho extent of three and a half millions. A too'Jicn ’ngamst ’increasing: the salaries erf Civil Servants receiving over £3OO during the war was negatived. Premier Fisher said the Government had decided that a percentage reduction was inadvisable. Tho stopI page over three hundred wcuid save | only £ 3245.