AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

QUEENSLAND RECRUITING. i Brisbane, August 17. Last week was a record in the State's 'recruiting; 711 men were accepted. MENINGITIS. Melbourne, August 17. , There have been five further deaths from meningitis, making 35 in all. EMPLOYMENT OF RETURNED SOLDIERS. Melbourne, August 17. The Cabinet agreed to the War Committee's recommendations regarding returned soldiers. An executive is being formed consisting of two Federal members, members of the State Parliament, municipal, commercial, and industrial men. These will superintend the em.ployment of returned soldiers ami assist the disabled. AUSTRALIA DAY FUND. Perth, August 111. Tta Australia Day funds total £45,-t>2-5. SEDITIOUS STATEMENT. Sydney, August 17.. At Wanga James Lalor, mine nian"agcr, a grandson of Peter Lalor, of Eureka stockade fame, was remanded on a charge of making a statement likely to prejudice recruiting. The information alleged that accused used in a hotel the 'words ''This war is a capitalist war. 'The King should be shot iindtlicQueen have her throat cut." The prosecuting counsel, in securing a remand, said he was considering whether acsuscd should not be arraigned on the more serious charge of seditious utterances. Another grandson of Peter Talor was recently killed lighting at the front. MANCFACTURK OF ■MUNITIONS.

Perth, Amgust 17. The secretary of the Munitions Committee states that owing to the inability of machine shops to guarantee the output, it has been dcei.MU to pool all machinery and labor under/ control of H committee, which will act, as contractor on behalf of (he whole nvtercsls. Labor organisations way he asiU'ed temporarily to suspend certain cw.idilions. Sufficient mat-hines are available to produce six thousand cases mcjrithlv.

ANOTHER Aims FIXED. PVrth, August 111. A naturalised 0 Annan was fined £.'. for saying that tiff, Australians ought to be shot. The 'overmans in Australia would heat them. All were German and alwavs would bo.