AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 3 September 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

FEDEEAL WAR LOAN. , SYDNEY Sept. 2. \ The Mutual Life and Citizens Company was the biggest subscriber to rho >var loan, witlMi million. THE LATE GENERAL BRIDGES. MELBOURNE, Sept. 2. Crowds paid a last tribute to Genera] Bridges by visiting St. Paul's Cathedral, where the body is lying in state. SOLDIER LEGISLATORS. SYDNEY, Sept. 2. Altogether, live members of the Assembly have enlisted. Two—Braund and Laritin— have been killed. Colonel Onslow is now at the front. The House made a patriotic demonstration in fareweiaing the .-remaining' twoPern and Chaffer. VARIOUS INTERESTING ITEMS. (Reed 8.40 a.m.) SYDNER, This Day. During a discussion between the Tamwcrth District Cuuaeil and riie and Settlors' Association on ■a motion that in viow of reports that more recruits are oiferir.g than coij?d ba equippsd, Mr Pe3rce be asked to allow farmer recruits to return home for the harvest. Mr Pank.hu rst suggested that a numh.ar of small fanners in New Zealand, whei'3 the harvest was later than in Australia, might be persuaded to come and help, "i .ie motion was carried. MELBOURNE, This Da.v. Iu the Hcusa, the Public Scr'jce Bill, giving preference to returned soldiers passed all its stages. Fiv e deatis and six fresri oases of meningitis are reported. This makes 2H5 deaths to date. BRISBANE, This Day. Several case s of meningitis in military camps are reported. A proclamation has been issued reducing by £2 2/6 the price of ilour,. ether than on that made from wheat irr ported.

(Reed 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr Dawson, the Methodist Conferenc3 President is a passenger by the Niagara.

Thompson and his partner (cabled 16th August) were fined £SO each on two charges cf attempting to trade -with the enemy. d Mr Nielsen, trade commissioner in 'pim&Ss&mefiStaif has written to Mr Holman, pointing out that the Commonwealth, Kew Zealand, and other possessions in the Pacific are described in the monthly summary of commerce of I}he United States under the heading of British Oceania, and he adds, it is sgjkewhat irritating to find a political entity! like the Commonwealth (submersed in such a title. Mr Holman has written to Mr Fisher, asking him to make representations to the United States Government on tjhe matter. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Government has decided not to permit newspapers publishing advertisements of German patent medicines to pass through tjhe post office. Mr Hughes is satisfied that the "Sanatogen" is German, and that other, preparations are undoubtedly. German, the profits going to Germans.. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Zinc Cororation is seeking to recover £41,920, balance due on concentraets delivered before the war, from Aaron Hirsch awd Sohn, Germany. Application for substituting service on F. Hirsch, now Hirsch's agent', was granted. The defendants are notified fry means of registered letter. The concentrates concerned are now at Port Pirie. and if judgment is obtained, could be taken over. Market quotations are: Wheat 8/1:* flour. £l7; oats (Mgeran and Chili), 3/9vto 4/: Japanese. 2/6 to 2/10;' maip. 4/6: bran, £5; pollard, £6? potatoes, £8 to £8 'lO/; onions, £6' 10/. • !