Australia

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 133, 29 October 1914, Page 5

Australia

WHEAT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

GOVERNMENT WATCHES SEED PRICEa.

Received 28, 10.40 p.m. t xi. r . , Ad *laide, October 28. In the Legislative -Assembly, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, in moving Mi ° f '' the Seed Ww* Bill, stated that tne Government did not propose to fix the price of wheat. A specify appointed board would acquire wheat as an ordinary purchaser or compulsorny at a price agreed with the vendor, or, failing that, at a price iixed by ■ a committee. The wheat would then be sold to tanners, or advanced und-i of the Drought Reliei }JXJ? an /j ici P atcd that three million bushels -ill be reaped in South Australia this harvest to meet the requirement of the state. ' CARGOES IN ENEMY'S SHIPS. SYDNEY MERCHANTS TAKE action:. Received 28, 11.50 p.m. Sydney, October 28 A meeting of merchants interested'in cargo on German steamers sheltering h I Java and adjacent ports, considered t'nu the Dutch Government had power und-i----e clauses of the Vork and Ant™, Jji.es.. to compel the masters to discharge sht>5 ht>J r «rgoes. The ineetin- n=,o ved to obtain a legal opinion as to" he likely to prove successful, and also to »am the result of Beetle's and' Anglo-iw-iss Milk Company's action in the Dutch courts. '

FURTHER EXPORT PROHIBITION. Received 28, 5.30 p.m. a™ i • Me'bourne, October 28 THE COUNTI7Y2pT~TO BELGIUM. EFFECT OF OOALEXPOM REGULATION. tt,„ vi • October 28 The cable instructing < r Ueor-re Reid .-a Payment t0 «• is m grateful acknowledgment 0 f <bc services she has rendered mankind ' TI, D r-vr „ Sydney October 28. the Chilian Consul at Newcastle predict, that the resu-iction of the export "arV 1° f Jii ,* ,ikcl >' t0 throw S Ua .as best coal u.arkct into American