AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 193, 23 April 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MILLION LOAN FOR VICTORIA. (Reed 8.45 p.m.) MELBOURNE, April 22. The State Government is negotiating for a million loan in London. AN ARCHBISHOP'S EXAMPLE. (Reed 8.45 p.m.) MELBOURNE, April 22. Archbishop Clarke has renounced alcohol. TAX ON BACHELORS. A SOCIAL EVIL. (Reed 8.45 p.m.) MELBOURNE, April 22. In th e House, Senator Sharpe, of Queensland, amid a cross-fire of jokes, advocated a £lO tax on bachelors between the ages of 21 to 60 which he estimated would yield two millions, He declared that unmarried men and women were social evils, making good salaries and avoiding their duties to the nation. LEAGUE FOOTBALL. THE PROPOSED ITINERARY. (Roc. 9.10 am.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Rugby League, in consulering New Zealand's request to postpone the tour to a later date, decides! that h view of the season's arrangements be ing already con/plete, New Zealand br asked to adhere to the June itinerary It does not anticipate the decision v:V cause the abandonment of the tow. The Daily Telegraph comments on tin excuse of the President of the Nc Zealand League for sending a te?m ' Australia, which shows the difficulty ' has to discover any justification for tl scheme, quite contra? - ;." to the sp-V which dominated other snorting hc'.i