AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 311, 9 October 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

WEATHER REPORT tfMecd 9.30 a.m.) • J SYDNEY, This Day. The weather is cold and dull and pjrospects of showery weather for races. BROKEN HILL MINERS WANT 44 HOURS' WEEK. (Reed 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A mass meeting of Broken'Hill miners resolved to continue the r&'bt for, forty; our hours' \veek. : . ;■ j . . SWIMMING ASSOCIATION I? til'OßjE, : (Reed 9.30 a.m.) .' r - SYCNEY, This Day. ... The annual report of theSwiaii'iipg ,' Asscuaiion states that 260vswimmers, ihave enlisted. ■ '.:-■«:• METAL EXCHANGE. ; (Reed 9.30 a.m.). . • . SYDNEY.,, Thjs.Day. \ ' A provisional committee for the establishment of a metal exchange at -Sydney has been formed. RAILWAY AND TRAMWAY ENLISTMENTS. SYDNEY, This Day. . Over tljjree thousand railway and tramway men have enlisted. NEW ZEALANDBRS AT THE FRONT A SOLDIER'S ACCOUNT. SYDNEY, This Day. A soldier's letter saiys that New Zealanders made a charge and, when they look the trenches, they found the Turks had tjheir machine-gunners •chained to the guns so they could not retreat. EXTENSION OF BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY CO.'s PLANT. (Reed 9.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Broken Hill Proprietary Com•pariy's steel works are extending the plant, and increasing the output from 25,000 to 170,000 tons annually. LOAN MARKET UNFAVOURABLE. SYDNEY, This Day. Inquiries which New South Wailes and some other States are making in London and America re t,he prospects •cf floating loans indicate that the Lon-" don market is unfavour to participating in public works flotations, while American financiers are willing to lend on certain terms and at a considerably enhanced rate to what previously paid for borrowed money. EARLY CLOSING OF HOTELS. SYDNEY, This Day. Cabinet has deliberated on the question of early closing. Ministers decided amongst themselves that hotels should close at ten o'clock. A caucus has been asked to decide whether the hour should be nine or ten. The Government proposes to open hotels two hours A'vvjater and-close one hour earlier, making the trading hours from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; such amendments to tthe Liquor Act to prevail during the currency of the war and to automatically cease on the declaration of peaca.

ISLAND TRADE.

. APT AUCKLANDER'S REMARK. DISCUSSED IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, This Day. The publication of Mr Anderson's remarks at the Auckland Chamber of Commence meeting regarding German trade monopoly at Tonga and Samoa, has attracted wide attention in sfhipping circles. Representatives prefer to say nothing respecting the supplying of goods to the firm mentioned. They agree that if Australia and New Zealand refused to maintain supplies, America wueld readily fill the breach. One adds that America is probably getting a share of tjhe import trade already and they certainly setting a greater share of the exports than all the other nations together. For the last six months an average of one schooner per month arrived at Samoa from S. Francisco carrying from four to six hundred tons and taking away copra. It is fairly certain that these 1 vessels do not come empty.