Australia.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 290, 17 May 1915, Page 5

Australia.

HELP FOR THE BELGIANS, i STREET ENLISTMENT. ~,.,, ~ . , ' s yJiH'.V, -Miiv 15. lp '!" iiiul.i. fe l,t (!..■ lielgian Dae total v;:s lU'i.s str.-et collection provided .C 21.000. iho list is still fur from complete Up till (i o dock incomplete returns showed that £M,im had been collected outside the metropolitan area. The Belgian matim.e at Her Majesty's drew n We worth £is»l. 'i'iie ,:ales of flays and other items and monev presents sent to Mr Hugh Ward brought tho total received at the theatre during tlio day to £21,(K)0. A movement is on foot for the State children on Empire Dai. to raise £lO- - for Belgian orphans'. During the Belgian Day excitement a youth nuircik'd in King Street shouting, "Come and enlist; fall behind." In a short space fourteen youths fell in and marched to the barracks, where t'.icy enlisted. TRADING WITH THE ENEMY. , Adelaide, May IS. ' The case aguiiut Francis Hugh Snow, a charge of attempting to trade with the enemy, abrupt!;,- terminated, 'Mr, Justice Gordon deciding that there was no ease to go to the jury. THE NAVAL BASE. V i "Melbourne, May 15. In the House Mr. Jensen announced that in view of Admiral Henderson's report in favor of Port Stephens as a naval base the Department was proceeds ing with works which would give em* ployment to many miners rendered idle owing to the war. .

CORRESPONDENCE FOR GERMANS. Sydney, May, 14. In the lirst case under the War Emergency Legislation two Jiieri named Buhri and .Simon were charged with bringing letters and other written communications from Germany and elsewhere, and that they attempted in writing to spread reports likely to cause alarm among the. civil population of the Commonwealth. Simon was fined £IOO and Bruhn was discharged. The evidence, disclosed that when,' Simon arrived by the Sonoma the Customs ollieers disco\ ered beneath a falso' bottom in his locker a number of German newspapers and letters for various persons, mostly Germans in Sydney and Melbourne. One letter was addressed! to the lA.mericnn Vice-Consul at Sydney. The military authorities refused the re« quest to deliver the letter. Received May I<>, 4 p.m. I Sydney, May 10. In sentencing Simon to six months? imprisonment, the magistrate added:] "In view of the appalling nature of the correspondence found in your locker your punishment should he greater." (Simon brought to Australia a quantity of newspapers and correspondence for Germans in Australia.) FOR THE BELGIANS. " . Received May 17. 12.45 a.m. Sydney, May 10. ' The Belgian Day returns amount to' £1)0,000, and are still increasing.