AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 241, 1 July 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

INTERESTING ITEMS (Reed 10 a.in) SYDNEY, This Day. At the inquest on Healey, at Dubbo, three of Ower's companions gave evidence that h e accbmphaied the woman Park, returning with, blood on his hands. They said, they believed he killed her ’ Paul or- the firm of Weber and Company, wool merchants, was fined £2O -for ‘attempting’to trade with the enemy . .. Thorp was a great gnithlpring 'of sportsmen and representative citizens at the late Victor Trumper’s funeral. A second shift: at the Lithgow small arms factory commences on the sth. With a view to augmenting the supply of meat the Government has suspended the rabbit poisoning, regulations within ten miles of all railways. The Government has ordered a return to be made on the third of all flour supplies. At a dinner to welcome the officers of the Japanese training squadron. Admiral Chisaka, of the Anglo-Japanesc squadron, said they represented something more than a mere scrap of paper. Meetings are being arranged throughout tho State to protest against th.e continuance of party politics in State and Commonwealth Parliaments. During th e year the State Meat Export season discolsed that mutton export season disclosed that mutton excuses, and beef had declined by 13,810 quarters. MELBOURNE, This Day Modified qualifications for enlistment proposals provide for the reduction of height to 5 feet 3 inches, but no reduction of chest measurement. In the House Mr Fisher, in reply to a question of whether the Government proposed to raise localiy, a ten million 4i per cent., war loan, said the Government was contemplating raising a loan for Commonwealth purposes, including war needs. He believed considerable money was available in Australia and an opportunity might be given to peop] e to invest. (Rec 10.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. It is anticipated that the States’ revenue at thg end of the financial year will show a deficit of over a million. The Federal Government Ims now received the necessary secret information for making shrapnel shells.