AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 25 August 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

WOOL BUYERS LEAVE FOR EUROPE. TO JOIN THE COLORS. Received 24, 5.40 p.m. Sydney, August 23. Meetings at Sydney and Melbourne decided that the Stock Exchanges shall remain closed for an indefinite period. Recent departures included numbers <".'f French and Belgian wool buyers, en route to join the colore. GERMAN TRADERS ALARMED. The German steamer The Signal has been seized. Melbourne, August 24. The steamer Port Lincoln has arrived. She reports communicating with th; Herman steamer Wismar, bound for New Zealand. After the news of the war had been received the \\ ismar refused to answer the wireless signal., 1 and apparently altered her course. Sydney, August 24. _ V proclamation has been issued notify i„« that British subjects contributing to the German loan or contracting with i lie German Government would !>o guilt;, of high treason. It also wavns cveryoiu' a«ainst commercial relaitious with residents of the German Empire. THE AUSTRALIAN FLEET. THE SUBJECT (TP i:N»OUNDED REPORTS. Melbnume, August 24. (With reference to 41ie re-kte-s vumm\-. kgarding the safety of the Australian fleet, Senator Milieu emphatically denies the wicked inventions. lie savs that wo t riKtworthy news reaching the department has been withh vl liom tihe public. EXPEDITIONAU V Vi'Rl E. Received 25, 2-50 a.m. f Svdnev, August 24. } Up to Friday. 10,780 had volunteered Sin New South 'Wales for 11m lixperi-