AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 11 August 1915, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

VARIOUS INTERESTING ITEMS. Bee. 0.50 a.m.) SYDNEY. This Day. The Telegraph, 'says the fault of t»<r recruiting campaign has boon, net m much the wish of young manhood, but the fault of enlisting arrangements and the men’s treatment after they nave enlisted. Instead of encouraging enlistment the recruiting system, or want of system, suggests that men am not wanted. In the Assembly, Mr. Hedman, in mply to Mr. Wade’s question whether the Government would extend tinplat form of the recruiting campaign in view of the facts that the public were not alive to the necessity of the movement, indicated that there wound be an 'extension. They had also commenced , negotiations v.itu the Deieuee authcis-g,-.,s with a v:ev.' to permitting rc-•v.-.Jts to. assist in gathering the hwva.;t. Country members are fear ml that recruiting will result an a sliding e of labour at a critical time. The captain of the steamer Cycle, from Vladivostoek, was greatly impressed with the quantity of Avar materials and munitions passing through | that port to Potrograd and Black Sea I portsi from the United States, Japan, ] and other p»arts of the world. Thousands of tons were landed AveekJy, and i the city is full of soldiers leaving for the front. Siberia has already sent over a million and a. half. He Avas also impressed with the system cf prohibition: lie could not buy a drop of liquor. Captain Bean, the official press correspondent. has been reported for braver A". His brother s letter says ihe captain was accompanying a charge when he saw a wounded Australian outside a trench and despite General McCay’s threat to send him to the rear the captain Avent out and brought in the man. General McCay was reported for bravery the same day as ’ the captain. Under heavy fire he built with packs dropped by soldiers * u protection Avail round a Avounded j i olonol and tlius saved his life. The Government is considering the curtailment of professional sport of all kinds during the Avar. MELBOURNE, This Day. Wallaeh has again been released under a Avrit of habeas corpus. An Indian Prince, Kajah of Pndakotu, lias married Miss Moilie xiux, daughter of the late Wolfe Fink, o: Melbourne. Adctoraia’s geld yield last year vas U3.21S ounces, the value being £1,755,a decrease of 21,714 ounces on 1013. Mr. Fisher's Budget, to-morroAV, Avill probably suggest a further war loan, caryring borrowing beyond 20 millions.