AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 12 August 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BOXING. AUSTRALIAN FEATHERWEIGHT :-, CHAMPIONSHIP. # BRISBANE, August 11. Hill bejat Ellis for the featherweigh championship of Australia. KETURNTSD WAEBIORS. WARNING TO PUBLIC. SYDNEY, August 1.1. Big crowds, and a tooting, beflagged steamer, welcomed the Ballarat's contingent of sick and wounded. A returned lieutenant says that those who have seen active service at the front are in a sense changed men. They have been among scenes which have jteft their mark. He hoped that rhe public would not in a mistaken 3x?Use of genrosity and goodfellowship supply them with drink. The great majority do not want it. AS OTHERS SE3 ITS. NATIONAL CABINET COMMENTED ON. NEW 'ZEALAND CONGRATULATED (Reed ?i a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Daily Telegraph comments on Mr. Holman's congratulations to Sir Joseph Ward on the formation of a National'' Ministry as carrying nn irresistible implication of back-handed •censure on Mr. Andrew Fisher for not undertaking similar steps. His congratulations imply that New Zealand's is a free pol.'tical system, one that permits a rise to heights of a more genuine self-sacrific-ing patriotism. This should prove pleasant reading to the Federal Labour "Caucus, whose inflexible machinery rentiers a National Government impossible The Telegraph also favourably comments on the Dominion's promptitude in sending postal officials to Egypt to Investigate delays, and adds: Now that a more up-to-date New Zealand Government has taken action, sleepy departments on this continent may wake •up. VARIOUS INTERESTING ITEMS SYDNE "fc, msi Day. Tha "Herald," In urging the pressing need for more men and weapons quotes the example set by New Zealand and Canada in raising subscriptions to present machine guns to the forces, as. one that might well be, followed MELBOURNE, Til's Day The King's message in reply to a resolution carried oy the two Houses, recording the; determination to carry the war to a victorious end, expresses a warm appreciation of the generous support given and sacrifices made by the ; Commonwealth .and the brilliant and effective service of the Australian Naval and Military forces had rendered Mr Fisher is indisposed. The Budget has .been postponed in iconse- j quence. '