AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

RED CROSS FUND. Sydney, Oct -28. The annual report of the Australian branch of the British Red Cross states that during the past year the expenditure has_ amounted to £590,000, including £339,000 for goods for the front. COALITION UNLIKELY. t - Sydney, Oct. 20. Messrs Holman and Wade, interviewed, denied the statement that a Coalition Ministry had been formed. They said that serious difficulties would have to be surmounted before any scheme was evolved. REFERENDUM RESULTS,' Sydney, Oct. 20. In view of the heated condition of public opinion, the result of the polling will iiot he posted in Sydney. CASUALTY LIST. Sydney, Oct. 20. Lift. 238 contains the names cf the following New Zealanders:— 111: Privates F. O. Kearns, W T. Creevey, Sec-ond-Lieutenant D. Freeman Returned to duty: Private G. Pennell. Convalescent: Private J. R. Sinclair

MELBOURNE, LTD., ' SHIRTS GREAT VALUES. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Melbourne, notwithstanding the high prices of shirtings, has never before offered such low prices on men's shirts. The reason is not far to seek. We are now manufacturing our own shirts, and as tbe materials have been advantageously imported direct from Home manufacturers we are enabled to eliminate the wholesalers' and other middlemen's profits and sell on a rock bottom basis never before attained by us. Result, these prices, 'which tell a wonderful story of underselling competitors: Men's •Harvard shirts, 2s lid, 3s fld, 3s lid, 4s lid; men's blue grandrill shirts, 2s lid, 3s 6d, 4s 6d, 5s 0d; men's S.S.S. drill shirt 3, 4s lid; men's black sateen shirts, 3s lid and 4s fid; men's Union Shirts,. 4s lid; men's white matte tennis and neglige shirts, 3s- lid; men's white mercerised striped repps and fancies, 4s lid; ecru mercerised stripes, 4s lid; boys' tennis shirts, all sizes, 2s lis and 3s 6d. JOIN THE ARMY of those who have tested the wonderful curative virtues of i>. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment. It gives quick relief whenever applied to a burn, blister, bruise, or i pain or sore of any nature. Price Is 'M and 3i. Obtainable everywhere, ,-