AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 130, 26 October 1914, Page 6

AUSTRALIA

CIIIXA .SVMI'ATIIKTIC.

riUYKiis i-'oi: ol'ii success.

SEARCIIIXCi EXEMir.S' PREMISES

Melbourne, October 24. •Speaking at a function at liallarat, the Chinese Consul denied the accuracy of the rumor that China was sympathetic towards the Germans. The Government iavorcd neither party, but the peop'e openly expressed friendliness to the Allies and Jiritish.

Sydney, October 21. The Australian war funds total iT.iO • 000.

At the conclusion of the meeting of the Congregational Union the conference passed a resolution that "This Assembly, in view of the colossal growth of militarism, associated at its main source with anti-Christian ethics which seek to displace, the principle of righteousness by the doctrine of the supremacy of might, expresses profound satisfaction at "the determination of the Empire to resist to the utmost the temper of arrogance and usurpation, and prays for the" suejess of the Allies in the present conflict." In the Senate the Trading with the Enemy Bill passed through all stages. Melbourne, October 24. , A proclamation prohibits the exportation of wool without the consent of the Minister of Customs .

Prompted by the action of the Imperial authorities, the Defence Department searched various establishments suspected of containing enemy material. Xothing was discovered except a quantity of correspondence which is being closely scrutinised.