CABLE BREVITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1915, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

FROM ALL QUARTERS. Androw Gi'jsou, with several aliases, who is described by the Sydney police as one of the cleverest swindlers in the world, has been remauded on charges of extensive frauds and forgeries at J ohnanncsburg. The Broken Hill branch of the Miners' Association has decided tlut no increase of wages will be accepted unless accompanied iby a 41-hour week and a general revision of working conditions. New South Wales statistics show that there lias been lesj unemployment during tlie past three • months than at anyi time since the war began. ■ Walter Torr, ex-manager of the Gov- : eminent Savings Bank at Wallsend (N.S.W.) has been committed for trial on a charge of stealing £3200 of the bank's money. Evidence was given at Sydney More the Commodities Commission that there will be a shortage of pigs, unless the export is prohibited. ■) Heavy rain in the central district has! greatly improved the prospects in: Queensland. j The King, Queen, and Princess Maryattended a unique garrison service at; Alderahot. Every regiment ; at Alder-' shot was represented. They su'.ise-. quentlyi watched the march past at the church gate and spent the afternoon with Lord Kitchener. The total German prisoners taken in South-West Africa between June IS and, July 19 was 4740. Russia has announced an early sum;, moning of the reserve of eight million; men under 35. The French Government announce* that owing 'to the recrudescence of crvptogamic diseases and the scarcity of labor, the French vintage will not exceed half that in 1914. Persian brigands attacked gendarmes at Kasvaii. Thirteen gendarmes were' killed and twenty-two wounded. Replying to Spain's representations; the German ambassador has apologised for the sinking' of the Isidor. A section of the extreme republicans have deposed and deported the acting Governor and prominent officials at Lorenzo Marques, who are accused ol Royalist sympathies. , The arrest of a man wearing colors on his shoulders, indicating that he. was a returned wounded soldier, caused a riot in Swanston . Street, Sydney, a crowd of soldiers rescuing the man'from the military police. The crowd was not quietened until an armed guard was brought out. Twentyi-six soldiers and one civilian were arrested. It is alleged that the man who wa3 wearing the colors had never left the training camp. A new recruiting campaign in New South Wales is projected. The Government considers that the Liverpool Camp inquiry interfered with the success of the last, scheme. iMj, Justice Rich amended his camp report reepmmending that all public-houses throughout the Commonwealth- should be closed to soldiers for the sale of liquor or the alternatives previously cabled. Dr. Sehlink, of Liverpool Camp, has been presented with an illuminated address toy the non-coms. and.others connected with the Liverpool hospital, in recognition of his patience, skill and energy, which had brought the hospital j to its high efficiency. . ! The police again rescued the same ' two peace advocates from an infuriated crowd at the Botanic Park, Adelaide. The Westralian Munitions Committee is forming a limited company operating with the committee as one bodv. Shares are being issued for five shillings. Vickers, Ltd,, Sydney, are engaging skilled mechanics. A clause in the agreement provides that their fare from England shall be refunded after a fortnight's services and their return fare at the end of six months. There are many applications, The Railway Commissioner is granting leave to employees accepting the offer and keeping their positions. Unnaturaliscd Germans at Perth were fined £2O Minder the War Precautions Act for attempting to persuade a recruit to withdraw from the forces.