AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

S THE REFERENDUM. SUEEXIKG OF LABOk e ARTS; •? '■■ • .Btceived Nov. 5, 5.5 p.m. jv* Sydney, Nov. 5. t 'Sift Hughes anticipates that tht posiv lion Will be fairly defined on Thursday $r friday, when; he propers calling the jwhota of the Labor Party together. In Jtofl meantime the Labor 'members dirideiSe two camps'of conscripticnists annua themselves ~*3 adherents to Mr. Rughes, whatever action he taker. ?ome I»nrtdfir.that.r.econcuiatign is still possible, . A statement hag been Racls that *be idea of a Coalition, Government is i abandoned, but rumors arc so variant, JkOC'the possibilities so many, that it is Relets to (peculate. i- i „ THE SPECTATOR'S COMMENTS. XMMOHWEALTH QLORIrIED, Received Xov. 4, d.s j> ut London, Xov. 3. rhft Spectator, in an article, fays it J» overwhelmed with''pride, gratitude, and wonder at the enormous scK-compuJ-£km vote in Australia. We think this . uge vote favor is a better way o( •hewing devotion, and one of the tnOst wonderful -»nd glorious Things in &uman history. Conscription may be defeated, but the spirit of Australia is ju=Rifled, and,it has enabled tho;o who Vottd against conscription to come ts yriunteers.V We saldie Austnlia in ad- ■ for they had a>very fUic excuse lcr stUking. because of what thty iright ' .call the bloody fiasco at Gallipot They di 4 not dream vt making the ".lightest su|ge«tion.of this kind, and did not deeven depr;;ife. aa mgolry. This is the act of a tru? j,enlle; mis. T9i«jf want, like the rc3t of the Dominions, to help, not to cTitickc. "ANTI" MAJORITY -REDUCED. The latest Referendum returns aire the ."No" majority to 73.149. There are efill 200,000 'votes to be .counted. The final returns ara uoC likely tp be completed before Novamebr '.. . A cpyscßipr.ox vicrnr. Sydney, Kov. 4. Tft Political Labor League Executive liis expelled Mr. J. C. Watson from the moWment because of bis attitude on (WUScription. CASUALTY LIST. Sydney. Kov. i. List 340 contain.! the names of the ■ following New Zealanders: Killed. in action, previously reported T. C. Wilson, Privates ,H. Young, E. R. Gibites, F. J. Thompson, R. 3. Mathiesoa, W \7est- • wpp, J. B. Cameron. Died of woende.— J. Cameron.