AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 240, 30 June 1915, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

INTERESTING ITEMS. (Reed 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Private F. H. 'Thompson, killed at the Dardanelles, was an International Rugby Unionist. He played against New Zealand last season. Herbert Owers has been remanded on a charge of murdering women at Dubbo. Madame Dolores, at a Red ross Coniert, realised £IOOO. Th e butter famine is unprecedented; it is almost unprocurable in the Metropolitan area. Government action is pending to relieve the situation. A prominent American manufacturer in writing to an Australian friend/ states that the Russian Government has placed orders for eight thousand million dollars' Worth of war material in the United States. A German at Broken Hill was sentenced to six months for refusing to take the oath of neutrality. He had just concluded a similar sentence. Mr Holman is initiating an active recruiting campaign throughout the State. Lectures are to be delivered in every centre by Ministers and Members of Parliament.