AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 236, 26 June 1915, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE BRITISH LOAN SHOULD AUSTRALIA PARTICIPATE? THE SUGGESTION SUPPORTED, SYDNEY, This Day. A suggestion has been made that Australia should participate in subscribing to the British War Loan, which is meeting with considerable press and public support. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. DIVE DOWN STEAMER FUNNEL. TEMPERATURE 600 DEGREES. SYDNEY, This Day. An extraordinary suicide occurred on th e voyage of th e Willesden from Buenos Aires. An apprentice, G. Lyons, climbed the iron ladder up the funnel. Ho reached the top, paused, tlfen dived headlong down th e .inside of the funnel. It is estimated that he must have fallen 70 feet into the smiokisbox, where the temperature is 600 degrees, BUTTER PRICES FOR PASTRY COOKS’ USE. SYDNEY, This Day. Mr Hall recently announced that the proclamation of prices referred only to .'better offered for safe in New South Wales; pastry cooks might import butter from New Zealand and America for use in their own business but not for sale Several merchants assumjed that they wer e permitted to import and sell as above at the statutory pric e to pastrycooks and shipstores, and had imported quantities, now to discover that they were not allowed to sell at above prices, and they are now diverting the cargoes to other States THE PRICE OF MEAT. REMOVAL OF DUTY URGED SYDNEY, This Day. In the Assembly Mr Kearsley inquired whether the Minister was aware the shortage of meat was caused by the .American Trust operating in Queensland by buying up numbers of cattle in view of New Zealand’s excess. Would the Minister consider the advisability of asking the Federal Government to remove the import duty on sheep? Mr Black replied that the shortage was due to drought and dpeletion of .supplies (from Queen Sian,d. and the amount exported for troops. Perhaps it would be advisable to ask the Government to forgo buying, Communications had already passed,, but no definite solution was reached. FEELING IN GREECE. SYDNEY, This Day Xavit .Sonis, Speaker of the Greek Parliament, writing to -bis nephew in the Australian Expeditionary Force, nays that, owing to the illness of the King, the nation is unable, at once, to participate, in the noble war against oppressors. So long as there was a Greece, so long would she have people following our ideas of freedom, who would eventually say they were ready to die for Byron’s country. So long as it was in his power, he would see that Greece’s duty lies in certain war. He pays tributes to the Australians at the Dardanelles, and adds: When the time comes a million bayonets of ours shall speak the same as the Allies." "DOWN WITH *THE KAISER." IMPROPER LANGUAGE FOR A COURT. SYDNEY. June 24. The case of August Neilsen, claiming £l5O damages against the Wharf Labourers’ Union on the grounds of preventing him from obtaining employment as a wharf labourer allegedly because he was German born, resulted in a non-suit. In the course of examination, counsel for the "defence in seeking to show that the funds necessary to bring the action had been snbscrbed by Germans, asked plaintiff if he was a thorough Australian.. Receiving an affirmative t reply, lie added: Then say “Down with the Kaiser.” The judgfe told Neilsen not to say the words because it was improper.