AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3579, 15 September 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

DRINKING BY WOMEN.

Received 9 a.m

SYDNEY, This day

Police evidence before the Licenses Reduction Court shows that drinking by women in hotels has largely grown in recent years, and is increasing.

UNIOrT OF CHURCHES,

Received 9 a.m. SYDNEY, This day

Progress returns in connection with ihe vote by members of the Presbyterian. Congregational and Methodist Churches on the question of union, indicate a strong affirmative decision in all three churches.

TAX ON RACE TICKETS

Received 10.40 a.m

SYDNEY, Thi s day

The Premier has announced that a Bill is being drafted to tax race tickets as follows:—Paddock 3/2, Leger lOd, outer gate 2d, ladies' tickets 2/6. The tax is estimated to yield £26,000. '..■•,• THE PEACE LOAN Received 10.40 a.m. MELBOURNE. This day. In the House of Representatives, Mr Cook announced that the peace loan wa s over-subscribed by £26,000, and money was still coming in. AUSTRALIA'S MANDTE. Received 10.40 a.m. MELBOURNE, This day. Mr Hughes, in the House of Representatives, moved the second reading of the New Guinea Bill, providing for the acceptance of the mandate and the establishment of a civil administration to replace military control, which has been operative since 1914. The debate wag adjourned. RAILWAY COMMISSIONER ARRIVES. Received 10.40 a.m. MELBOURNE, This day.

Mr H. W. Clapp, the newly-appoint-ed Victorian? Railway Commissioner, at a salary of £SOOO per annum, has arrived from America, where he relinquished the post of vice-President of the St. Louis Railway Company. He was borne in Melbourne, and commenced life as an engineering apprentice at South Melboure. PARER AND McINTOSH. - Received 11.40 STnT MELBOURNE, This day. Parer and Mcintosh were presented by the citizens with cheques for £SOO each. SHIPPING FREIGHTS. Received 10.40 ajn. MELBOURNE. This day. In the House of Representatives, Mr Hughes stated that tlie British Shipping Combine had unsuccessfully endeavoured* to induce the Comriionwealth Line to increase freights, and as the former had not raised the freights, he assumed that the Commonwealth's refusal had prevented them from doing so. Owing to the industrial troubles in Italy, the Australian mail boats are calling at tfoulon instead of Naples to facilitate the passage of the English mails. SHIPPING. Received 10.40 a.m. SYDNEY. This day. . Arrived (early this morning): Tahiti, from Auckland* NEWCASTLE, This day. Sailed: Jiuju Maru, for Lyttelton. MELBOURNE, This day. Arrived: Waikawa, from Wellington. Sailed: Canadian Prospector, for Vancouver. END OF SHEARERS' STRIKE. WORK NOW IN PROGRESS. deceived 9 a.mT SYDNEY, This day. The end of the shearers r strTße is

apparently approaching. The General

Council of the Graziers' Association, while advising ana assisting members as far as possible to adhere to the 48 hours' system, has resolved to permit members to make the best arrangements they enn for the remainder of the season. The approach of the lambing season, "the wool position and heavy drought and flood losses are given as the reasons for this action. Over one hundred sheds .have shorn, or are shearing, on the Association's terms.

McCORMACK AND THE NATIONAL

ANTHEM

Received 12.45 a.m

SYDNEY, This day

A cable from London with reference to McCormack is the sequel to his cancelling a concert at Adelaide fixed for last Saturday night. After a previous concert a section of the audience sang the National Anthem, and McCormack declared this was a studied affront and insinuation. He refused to have the National Anthem sung at. or played at. his concerts. He explained that the Anthem was. never performed at recitals, except when vice-Royalties were present. He added that various members of the community had been violently antagonistic to him on~account of his American citizenship, and had determined make his stay in Adelaide miserable. They were not inspired with patriotic feeling. He was as proud to be an American citizen as he was proud to have been born in Ireland. During McCormackj's Sydney season, prior to visiting Adelaide, considerable feeling was shown over the absence of the National Anthem at some of his concerts.