AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

THE METAL MARKET. ACTION BY ZIN'C CORPORATION. Melbourne, September u. Tin l Zinc Corporation is seeking to recover £41,!>20, the balance due for" concentrates delivered before the war fi-iitu Aaron Hirseh and Sohn, Germany. Tin; application for substituted service on 1-'. 11. Xow, ilirsch's agent, was granted. Defendants were notilicd by means of a registered letter that the concentrates concerned.are now at Port Pirie and that if judgment is obtaj»ed they could be taken over. DECLINE IN RECRUITING. Received Sept. .'(, 10.55 p.m. .Sydney, Sept. 3. The week's recruiting has been quiet. One cause assigned for the decline is the want of action on (lie part of the Government to dispense with Germans employed in the public service. Many letters on the subject have appeared in the press. LATEST CASUALTY LIST. Received Sept. 4, 1.5 a.m. Sydney, Sept. 3. Seventy-third list:—Killed in action: Ihive. <|lll'.*,*r, ;\u*i TV.TMI!. lU«lU<UUj|>, I'nvaieSi \U' li: n\",'"". '\ii(i I'i I'Mmiston, Died oi,woiino>:i line, (llliecm mid nine men. whhkum: .[Vine . omecrs and '28(1 [ men, liicliuli< - ' 'n-|.'uiat A. \\. Kaill (i" Hospital «:. Malta), ami I'nvntc.T. \V,. Wilson. (In liosuiial at Alexandria)-1 Missing:, One cliicer,- ind. thirty n;eR. | 111 One. ofllcet, aattUiU'JSiJisiUn Utefti.

LAID TO REST.

FUNERAL OP GENERAL BRIDGES. Received Sept. 3, 11.40 p.m. Sydney, Sept. S. Prior to the entraining of General Bridges' remains, service wa» Held in St. Paul's Cathedral at Melbourne, It was attended by the Gover- - nor-General, the Governor, Parliamentary, naval, and military heads, and a great congregation. Archbishop Clarke, in his address, paid impressive tribute to the late soldier. , .' Great crowds thronged the route from " the cathedral to the railway station, 'I the military escort including a eompivnjr of wounded soldiers. A special train '■■' conveyed the eoflin and many distinguished visitors to Canberra, where the fallen soldier was buried with full military honors on a crest overlooking Diintroon College. The pall-bearers were Admiral Crcsswell, the military heads. Hon. A. Fisher, and Senators Pearce and' Cook. General Bridges'charger wa« led behind the gun-carriage bearing the coffin, which was smothered in beautiful wreaths. The Primate, in a sympathetic address, said it was good that our soldier hero should have hla last resting-place on a spot within the precincts of the collage so dear to hit heart. From his grave we !. turn to the high duty fronting us, tiur tremendous task for victory in the war. His voice and the voices of the comrade!! who fell with him call in trlum- .■'", pliant titiu's to .shrink from no sacrifice; . we must finish, at any price, what they began at so great a cost.