Australia

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 240, 19 March 1915, Page 5

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MESSAGE FROM MR. HARCOURT. ABOUT BELGIAN -RELIEF. SENTRY'S POOR SHOOTING. WHEAT FAMINE INI WESTRALIA. Melbourne, March 18. Mr Harcourt has cabled to Mr Fislier that, the commission for Relief in Belgium is anxious that money remitted through the High Commissioner, or Ag-ents-General should be. handed over direct to the Commission, which devotes itself exclusively to feeding the civil population in Belgium. This is quite distinct from the Belgium Relief Fund, which is a general fund. Sydney, March 18. The Tennis Association has decided to give the. net proceeds of the inter-State tourney on April 10 to '24 to the Belgian Relief Fund. The Commission has fixed the price of sharps at £ll per ton. Perth, March 18. A sentry guarding the reservoir challenged a man who refused to stop. After challenging again the scntryTired, hut the man was not. hit. The man fired at one of the sentries, whose cap was pierced. Later the same night a man wa.s again observed in the vicinity, lie was challenged and tired at, but made oil to the bush. A conference of the "Millers' Association and the Grain and FoodstulVs and Control of Trade Boards agreed to the Government importing 17,(100 to U3,000 tons o! wheat. A resolution was passed bringing to the notice of (tic Cal'inet li'at the Premier had previously stated that the Government was not, unwiiiing t !l hear tile io. ; ,cs which might he incurred, '1 lie Grim and Foodstuffs Hoard intend:; seizing Hour and fixing the price.

.XATl'lvAL,is.;:i; c'KHM'AXS. rSTKUXKIi ll'' i.'i'T UK \vui;k. ll'.'eeive, 1 . March Is, 8.;" p.m. Mclhonrne. .Mavch lA .Mr. J'earee aniiomices that the I'eience Depart'ieeiii. decide I to follow ihc I'iillli *'oveniHiciit's lead in intcrnine' naturaii-nl. Hennans liable to I'jud emphi'.mci)!. deslilution inonev, lik per week. SI (OUT A( ;F. Ob' I'ODDKK. ASSISTANAK \VAX'TI'.V) l'llUM MAV ZIsAhANXi). l!ecei,i'd -Man-li 18, 8,5 p.m. Alcihoimie, Ahu'ch 18. Tlic Min':i;'!' of Agriculture, relil.vilij! to a. depuiaUeii rc;.;ardin;; the shorl'aiie of fodder, raid he wollhl consult Ihc (,'ahinet on the po--ihilif y of ohtaiuiu'_' supplies from Xc\v Zealand ami San l'"raHci-c!i. I le-■ jii!,. Xew Zealand's ju'ohihition a.'ja'n-t its export, the Dominion i ecccnimeui in'eAt lucd repre-entat ions on he'.ulf ..f ihc Stale. STATU i'• 111" AI) ill L\i li'i H/\', DKI'TXITtiIA,' DKI'IDKD UI'O.V. Jieceived March 111. K.o p.m. Svducv, March 111. The ( : o\ernuient have definitely decided to carry out the .State bread \uonopoly.