Australia

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 201, 3 February 1915, Page 5

Australia

NATIVES' ASSOCIATION SOME STIRRING SPEECHES. Melbourne, February 2. Mr Pearee, speaking at the luncheon «f {be Australian Natives' Association, KjU it was not a question whether Jwtnliu would send fifty or a hundred thousand men to the front The mtf limitation would be the number SsTering who could be equipped, trained adsent. Mr Watt, MJP., referring to Presitat Wilson's birthday message wishing ike Kaiser good luck, said it was not *• birthday but the deathday of WilHam Hohemollern. They wanted and Irated that the day was not distant wfctn the Allies would say to him, in A« scarlet words of Shakespeare, "Down, down to deepest hell and say I •est thee." That day would cause Christendom to reverberate with joy when they overthrew the man who had consigned so many millions to death.

WAK .FUNDS. Sydney, February 2. The New South Wales war fund amounts to £550,000. _ f AUSTRALASIAN'S GOOD BEHAVIOUR. REITERATED ONCE MORA. Received 2, 7.20 pjn. ' Melbourne, February 2. v Major Ctymont, of the New Zealand \ Expeditionary Force, who has returned by steamer from Egypt, said that he had read the accounts of alleged bad behaviour of Australians in Egypt, and could only say that he saw nothing to justify the report. Considering they were untrained men, tueir behaviour was excellent, but in a large force they must expect a few to kick over the .traces. THE COMMODITIES COMMISSION. WIDE SCOPE OF ACTIVITY. Received 2, 9.20 p.m. Sydney, February 2. At the Commodities Commission's in-i vestigation into the news-vendors' strike, the chairman ruled that the Commission had power to deal with any article, provided the Government was satisfied that it was a necessary commodity.