AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 8 September 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

VARIOUS INTERESTING ITEMS. (Reed 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. indignation Is expressed at Mr Spring-Thorpe’s allegations, and papers publish denials of several allegations made at the same time, but admitting that the basis of charges was unfortunately true. Owing to the sudden rush of woundeds organisations were insufficient to cope with needs. The chairman of the New South Wales division of the Red Cross Society publishes a letter from Sir Fre erick Treve s to the Medical Officer at Heliopolis, in which he says, “Your staff has done wondelrs. I was impressed with tie energy, enthusiasm and thoroughness manifest in every department of the vast hospital. The chariman pointed out that Spring- ■ th or pc’s allegations were prior to the arrival of the C-o m m 'is si o n ers. The Defence Department wa s carrying out a confidential inquiry into the; whole matter. MELBOUURjNE, This Day. The wholesale price of butter is reduced to 1/5; retail, 1/7BRISBANE, This Day The price of milk fixed in the Metropolitan area is s*d a quart retail, shilling a gallon wholesale. WORLD’S PRESS CONGRESS. (Rec. 8.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. Holman is advised by the President of the Press Congress of the World that it has accepted the Government’s invitation for the confer- I ■cnee to meet in Sydney in 1938. j 1 NEW STEAMER SERVICE. SYDNEY, This Day The Sontay, the first French mail •steamer for Australia under the new timetable, will reach Sydney, via Singapore, Batavia, and Noumea. THE WAR LOAN. MELBOURNE, This Day. A parcel of £3OOO worth of war loan bonds fetched £lOl. RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. (Rec. 8.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Norton-Griffiths Company has undertaken a number of railway construction works, ■ . 1 EARTHQUAKE RECORDED. SYDNEY, This Day. ! The Riverview Seismograph record- ’ •ed a very violent earthquake 6,800 miles distant. i A GERMAN THRASHED. 1 SYDNEY, This Day. A German working at Pelawmain made pro-German utterances and was thrashed by an Australian. He re- j' ported to the manager and was dis- j missed. Wheelers later refused to j ( work with other German employees • and the mine is closed. j OBITUARY. i SYDNEY, This Day. * Obituary: Sir George Simpson, poli- * tician and judge. RECONSTRUCTION OF MINISTRY. MELBOURNE, This Day. At a meeting of State Ministers, members decided that reconstruction of the Ministry was necessary immediately, ,

EARLY CLOSING. (Eec. 8.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Da 7. In the Assembly, several petitions for and against early closing were pre- ; seated. Mr. Brown moved that in eonsequence of moral and social ills a,rising. from the sale of intoxicants, bars •should be closed much earlier. Mr. Stuart Robertson said any man --.Ought to be abee.-to get as much liquor as he required between 8,30 in the -morning and six in the evening. The Turks are a non-drinking race' and they are more humane fighters than the beer-drinking Huns. He moved the addition of the words “not later than six o’clock in the morning.” Captain Tombs said temperance reformers were in a minority in the agitation, which was due to hysteria rather than to reasonable comraonsense. Mr. Cocks moved a further amendment making nine o’clock the closing hour.

Mr. Brown s motion was carried ■without a division.

S * x oc^ motion was negativn * no o ’clock was negatived by 38 to 33.