AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 208, 13 May 1915, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ARTILLERY UNIT ACCEPTED. t Press Association —Copyright (Eec. 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Bay, The Imperial Government has accepted an offer of a unit of garriaga artillery for service abroad. EXTORTIONER FINED. MELBOURNE, This Day. A storekeeper was fined £lO for selling a bushel of bran at 3d above the fixed price. TEUTONS PROTECTED, ;( Reed. § a.m.3 SYDNEY* Thug Pag, * A guard of 25 police has been ed to protect the German Club, an# the homes of the leading Teutonic citizens.

PATRIOTIC COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS. - ( Reed. 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Commercial Travellers’ Associations of Australia has donated £3,500 to the War Ambulance Fund. PREMIERS' CONFERENCE. DAYLIGHT SAVING PROPOSALS. SYDNEY, This Day. The Premiers’ Conference adopted resolutions in favour of uniform light and harbour dues, co-operation in the direction of national insurance against unempolyment, appointment of a Royal Commission to report on the treatment of refractory ores. There was considerable amusement over what wa s described as “hardy annual daylight saving.” ■ Mr Earle of Tasmania suggested an electrical system would; be better. Mr Holman thought the suggestion excellent, but the public were not quite ready The Conference re-affirmed a resolution recommending daylight saving to the serious attention of the States,