AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 11 September 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

ir, ■ ■ " ' . POLITICS. ft QUEENSLAND LIBERAL LEADERSHIP. U I BRISBANE, Sept 9. Mr MacCartney, leader of the Liberal Party, has resigned owing to illness, and Mr J. T. Tolmi© has been elected to th e leadership. FEDERAL NO -GONEIOE NC E r MOTION DEFEATED. MELBOURNE, Sept 3. Mr Elmslie's no-confidence motion I was defeated by 3 1 to 31. THE WHEAT QUESTION. j I A GOVERNMENT THREAT. TO START STATE MILLS. (Eec. 8.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE. This Day. In connection with their purchase or wheat from the Government, millers are threatened with a loss of £B,OOO on offal left on their hands when the prices of bran and pollard were reduced. MLlowncrs have notified the State Government of their intention to close down their mills because the Government Avould not stand in on their losru The Minister for Agriculture has replied that unless millers continue grinding the Government will seize tw o of the largest mills and supply wit:; flour. The ' millers thereupon gave j Avar. N.S.W. RECRUITING. (Rec. 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. It is stated that 18.000 men are at present in training in New South Wales, covering the State’s quota of recruits required to fill all gaps to the -end of December. NATIONAL SERVICE OPPOSED. SYDNEY, This Day. The Secretary of the Sydney Labour Council is opposed to national service on the grounds that it would give the impression that we had eome to the end of our resources and that we had our backs against the Avail. MINING TROUBLE ENDED. MELBOURNE, This Day. As the result of a mass meeting at Mt. Lyell the men decided to accept ‘the Company’s terms, and are resuming immediately. AN INTERESTING RETURN. * $ -- , , ... MELBOURNE, This Day. A Senate return is tabled showing that there are 2199 militia officers in paid positions in the various States who have not offered their services for the front.

POLICE UNION TO BE FORMED. BRISBANE, This Day. Sanction has been given for the police to form a union. PRICE OF FLOUR. BRISBANE, This Day. The price of flour in the southern division is fixed‘at £2O, pollard £7, and bran £6 per ton. DESERTIONS. AS SERIOUS MATTER. SYDNEY, Sept. 30. It is stated that the matter of desertions is becoming serious. The last batch of three hundred reinforcements returned from their final leave ninety short. A further thirty deserted before embarkation.

The Statistical Abstract for last month gives the 'preliminary' figures for the number of sheep in the Dominion as 24,465,520, as against 24,798,763 for Ihst year. The decrease of 333,000 is probably due to the drought that prevailed during the past season. If the Government attempts to prevent raffles being conducted for patriotic purposes, the peoplb of the Waimarino electorate are going to defy them. That was the statement made by the- member for Waimarino (Mr. R. W in the House of Representative®. Mr. Smith had a good deal to say about the 11 narrow-minded persons” who objected to gambling in the cause of “our boys,” and he told the tale of a turkey, an elderly and hard-working bird, which had brought / £3O at a patriotic auction, about £29 S ( 15/ ’ f ore than w °uld have been paid it under ordinary circumstances. The gambling instinct always had existed, and always would exist, he said, and *he for one would not want to liye in a world from, which the “sports”Jtatl been eliminated."