AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 212, 20 May 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

■NEW, GUINEA NOT ANNEXED. f KAISER STILL HOLDS SWAY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) SYDNEY, May 19. >4', Colonel Holmes, in giving evidence ■received specific instructions merely’to and not to annex New Guinea, which was still German, under the Kaiser's jurisdiction. RIGHTS ON ENEMY SUBJECTS. SYDNEY, May 19. Justice Harvey, in the Equity Court, ■decided that no one could legally hold ■or execute the power of attorney for an enemy subject. Any person making payment of money on behalf of an enemy subject was really trading with the enemy -v...

PAPUAN AFFRAY. . . ...OS’?* ; t FURTHER DETAILS. ■ ” (Reed. 9 p.m) MELBOURNE, May 19, Details of the Papuan affray, cabled yoa th© first, show that after massacring: the native police, the natives at. lacked a settler named Clay, not anc looted and burned Ms plantation. Clay was seriously wounded, but escaped. The' polkc aaptitfed %i natives' concerned.