AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 70, 12 August 1914, Page 8

AUSTRALIA

-HEX AND MONEY POURING IN. FOODSTUFF PRICES PROTECTED. SPEECH BY FEDERAL PREMIER. Received 11, 7.40 p.m. Sydney, August 11. The chairman of the Australian Jockey Club submits to the annual meeting a proposition to donate £IO.OOO to patriotic purposes. . The Mayors of Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide have opened war funds. Tile Messageriea Company's sailings are all deferred. Melbourne, August 11. The expeditionary force -comprises one I light horse brigade and one division of volunteers, who are thronging the barracks everywhere. Victoria and New South Wales will contribute a brigade each, and other .States a battalion. A thousand men will form tlie third brigade. •Mr. Cook, the Premier, speaking at the Mayor's lunch, said the financial institutions of Australia were sound, and the Government intended seeing them and the workmen through the crisis. He believed this was the most righteous war for many generations. "We are lighting to keep our word of honor/' Tie concluded. The City Council voted £SOO. Adelaide, August 11. The Racing Club decided to contribute half the profits of the Grand National meeting to the war fund. Perth, August 11. A Koyal Commission has been apnoin!.ed to fix food prices. Hobart, August, 11. An enthusiastic meeting of citizens proclaimed their loyalty to the Empire. Tasmania will commence the enrolment of volunteers. THE CENSOR TN SYDNEY. Received at 11.50 a.m. Sydney, August 10. The censor has prohibited the notification of the departures of any overseas ressels. A FLUTTER IN SYDNEY. Received at 11.50 a.m. Sydney, August 10. An evening paper's misreading of the cable stating that Britain had sunk the German submarine 1715 into the sluicing <jf fifteen ships caused a flutter ill the city to-night. PROTECTING THE PEOPLE. Received 11, 10.5 p.m. Sydney, August ]J. In tlie Assembly, Mr. Holm'in, Premier of, New South Wales, in reply to questions, said that if prices of commodities were, being uifduly inflated the Government was prepared to pass urgent legislation to prevent it. ' AN EMBARGO BEHOVED. Received 12, 1.15 a.m. Sydney, August 11. The embargo against notifying the departure of oversea vessels- hals been removed. , Advices have been received that the German mail steamer lioon, due at I*remantle last Monday, is sheltering at a neutral port in .Java. Many Australian passengers aboard. Dix»n's Tobacco Trust has offered £SOOO as a. nucleus of a fund to purchase and send Hour and meat to the j Imperial Government.