AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3551, 13 August 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

PAPER FROM AUS’I.‘R.».\LIAN

VVOODS‘

Received 8.45 am. SYDNEY, This day.

The Governxnem has appointed a committee. including newspaper managers with practical knowledge. to test in the bulk 21 parcel of Australian llimhor.< for ])2lp(*]‘ nlaking.

JAPAN AND THE ISLANDS

A N ()T“F'l (‘.]Q‘\ L DENIAL.

RecM\'ed 8.45 am. SYDNEY, This day.

' The Acting‘-(‘onsmL for Japan gives through the press an indignant officizfl denial to ‘rho rumours that Japan 15 fnl'ti’t"yin,q T’:Lcil'u* I’.~'.l:lurls .~‘mlH_l Of 13.710 equator. He says the rumour is ridiculous, and Sll£f,‘_‘.‘;GSfs thta it *.'<>pl'eSentsu the 111a11uf:1r?t1n'e of a gr3l'mdless prejudice against. Japan for the purpose of making rrofible betwe-(an Japan zméf Britain, or between Japan and Aus’rralia.. by those illt‘..'-.~n.~'.H=-(IA

BACK TO PAL-ES TINE.

Received 8.45 am

SYDNEY. This day

Mr Israel Cohen, a represenial:ivr-3 of the Zionist Mission. yvhicli is mising funds for 1,119 settlenn=.nt-. of {Tews in PR'l(?Sfi))€‘ 33 HOW I‘«)l}riy)g the Commonwealfn. He leaves for New Zealand on 20131 Au«gust. He has alrn2c?y rz~i.<'r‘J nvrr ‘C-'-‘—“~(W‘ in .A\:.~.r' lin.

THE PRINCE OF WALES. Received 10.40 a. m. A SYDNEY, This day. The Prince’s 111:1-51 is expected to arrive by the Carkunda, and will be brought by aeroplane from Adelaide to catch the Renown on August 19th. The Prince is: concluding -his country holiday, and returning to Sydney, on Saturday_

HUGE RACING PROFITS.

Receivéd 10.40 a. In

SYDNEY, This day

The annual report of the Australian Jockey Club discloses that _the prizes amounted to £IOO,OOO, the totalisator receipts were over £1,000,000, and {he club’s profits £35,000.

VESSEL QUARANTINED. Received 10.40 a. m. MELBOURNE, This day. On her arrival from New Zealandz the Northumberland was quarantined Eight pel‘so~nS- are suffering from in‘ fluenza. ’

\-"ICTORIA."S COAL SHORTAGE.

Received 10.40 a. m.

MELBOURNE, This day.

Mr Hughes has announced that 45,000 tons of coal are coming from Newcastle to -Victoria on Thursday to relieve the «shortage

THE AUSTRALIAN MANDATE.

Received 10.40 a. m. MELBOURNE, This day‘

It is expected that a Federal Parliamentary party, comprising four Ministerialists, four Labour ,and two Country Party members, will leave on 28th August on a visit to- the Pacific Isktnds. '