AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

! AUSTRALIA DAY. Received August S, 4,35 p.m. j Sydney, August 7. i The Australia O.'.y l'uud continues tq swell. In Now .South Wales It U BOW *.•101,000, South Australia £170,000, auU 'iVsauania., £.17,000. . ,_,jJ HETI'IISED HOME. ■Melbourne, August 7.- ■ 'X jich aaid woundc-d soldier* wiw TV' turii6<t by the steamer BaJlamt a great welcome. H'|.; — iIANUiFACTURE OF »MUK>N6. Melbourne, August 7. .. Senator Pearce is foiling an trial corps, and is advertising th.roUghi out the Commonwealth for skilled mc chanica to enrol 'for tihe Biaiiuf&cturG Olf munitions and equipment. ' 'They willi . not lio allowed to enlis-t for a/stive 9W'' vice. METAL CONTROL. ,;! j f Melbourne, August f. " \ Mr. Hugjhej is eota,bUsQiing ia f bourne, on Seytemiber 3, a Qovenu&Mw metal excliange to control t&ie outpnl) and destroy German control. - VARIOUS ITEMS. Sydney, August '/. >'i Owing to the outbreak of cerflblfy spinal meningitis and the three deatfa • at Liverpool camp, recruits are OOfc; 1 being sent to the camp for the tbotie <i being. The first deith'froii the suns' disease has been from U>(| ■ Victorian camp. ' I Sir Alexander Godley replied to Mr.-'* llolma.il, on behalf of the "Anstmliafltj , : - under his command, thanking i South Wales for its splendid sympathy/:' with the wounded. He adds: "Suoh On > assurance, coupled with the knowledge ' that tlie places of the fallen will' be filled by a steady flow of reinforce nvents, is an enormous source of 9fctis* , faction to imy troops." •As the result of the action of some members of the 1.W.W., the police an empowered to arrest disloyal street I speakers. ''

Melbourne, August 8. Mr. Pearce, on behalf of the Imperii Government, has requisitioned all «np*. plies of molybdenite, wolfram ««/4 scboelite, whjeir'are of vital Importance for war purposes. The Stiiiflt authorities hava fixed the iprics at 66* per unit of wolfram aud 10og per unit of molybdenite. Mr, Hughes contend with a representative of the mated Ziuc Corporation with a view to extended smelting operations so fbfct 1 Australia will <bc aiblo to deal with til" her own Concentrates, and to eatiHMl subsidiary industries.

Mr. I'isher states that preference fo!9 employment in the Government B&rvicfi is to (bo given to returned Mlditt*. whether they are members of iwlu»trial unions or not.

In the House Mr. Pearce, in reply t# a question, said that the suppiyfeS at more machine-guns to the Auftaftfotf troops was .being considered. "Hie dbV culty was that all tho EngiWi atid' American factories were worka* tti then- highest pressure for theAtiiw, the Munitions Committee was coniider* mg the local manufacture of machinm guns. ™ ,

A now scheme for tntining recruita "? is to be adopted, involving t£e bmk< ing up ot the present bag cami® And tfca' ' a nu,nlber ° f amaner OM». ; All the troops m the future will U or* P ganised in infantry battalions ot one '' thousand anen, under the headkHmrtfer. ■> staff each colonel being solehr reatoon* * sible for jus own camp. ' ' ■ i ; stiH alKolutely united and deterain«J. Xliey adimit there is a long, bitter atnwi gle abend, ajid that England tmurt M overthrown. ' »1