AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 270, 18 August 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

VARIOUS INTERESTING ITEMS. (Reed 8.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Australia Day funds total £567,808. j Doctor Bray, who is in charge oi' the clinic at Prince Alfred gave some startling evidence before the secret disease commission. He said from January to the end of Junes 1320 cases had been treated. Patients were constantly sent away because it wa s impossible to accommodate them. It was now arranged for five hundred to be- treated weekly. Many respectable married women were infected innocently, and a great number of children were also treated. Twenty to twenty-five, under ten years of age, were treated weekly. A number of country recruiting associations have notified Mr Holman that apathy and lack of enthusiasm in regard to recruiting is prevalent in country districts. One says the sooner the authorities coldly fac s the inevitable and compel the shirkers to do his part the sooner war will end. It is announced that the cruiser "Brisbane" will be launched en the 14th and the destroyer "Swan" on the 29th September. In the Assembly the appearance of th e Early Closing Petition produced extraordinary counter demonstrations, the numerous gettings totalling 150,K)SS signatures in favour of uninterferer.ee, were presented by private

members. Mr Brown submitted a motion in favour of early closing. He \n.nv there was no mandate from the -people to curtail-the hours of licensed hours, but the world had undergone a great change sir.ee last ejections. He pointed out th e restriction of hours by other States. On Mr Stuart Robinsnn's motion the debate was adjourned to the 7th September. In renlv to a question r e closing the Stadium," in view of a recent anti-rer-ruiting demonstration, Mr Holman s»id the sudden closing of a sports -round wor/d throw large numbers ; r t of wpA Other measures were increasing th ? number, avad--Mo tor- military service. Those e""- ? -~d m nonrpreJfefctive work were under consideration.