AUSTRALIAN NEWS
Mr. P. Webb, M.P. for Grey, speaking at the Hon. Hughes’ farewell banqut, hoped that in future more Australian politicians would visit New Zealand and enable the people of tlie two Dominions to understand each other bettejr. It is essential that an undersanding should be brought about iu national interests and for the good of political parties.
Three arrests have been made In connection with the robbet’y at Kelly’s. The police raided premises in Willongby and recovered £282. Despite tiie war conditions, the New South Wales bank deposits in 1915 established a record. Thd'e was an increase of £9,404.000. Last quarter’s increase was £1,708,000. MELBOURNE, Jan. 19.
The sentence on McNamara has been commuted to life imprisonment.
(McNamara was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing an eldOrly worn a to death with a bayonet on the 21st November").
The imports, exclusive of transhipped goods, during the past totalled 2,519,5-12 tons, compared with 2,(596,953 tons in 1914. The decrease was almost wholly overseas trade.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 17, 21 January 1916, Page 3
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165AUSTRALIAN NEWS Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 17, 21 January 1916, Page 3
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