AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1917, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

3 RED TRIANGLE COLLECTIONS. j FEDERAL ELECTION RETURNS. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association 3 ■ Sydney, June 3. It is anticipated that the Red Triangle ! collections will bo. in the vicinity of 1 £IOO,OOO when complete. " The Federal election returns will be j completed during the coming week. One ' soldiers' return has still to come, and = one or two seats are still doubtful. 1) , : POLITICAL LABOR LEAGUE ' CONFERENCE. Sydney, June 2. '{ At the Political Labor League annual " conference Mr. Doyle, in his presidential J address, said that despite the checks ": that the Labor, movement had received ( ' in the State and Federal elections, the large attendance of delegates augured c well for the future. Checks were better 8 foi the movement, because it got ri(! ot s certain people who were iising their 0 brains and ability for their own scltlsh S ends. The party had that so-called }' secret junta for preserving the ideals of tho movement unsullied. Theso ideals wouid persist, Tfeeause the movement was essentially the people's movement. It may be that Labor will shortly be called upon to again protect itself from e thb Kaisers now ruling the country, l- NOTE CIRCULATION.. •2 Sydney, June 4. ;o The Commonwealth notes in circuias, tion amount to £47,213.020 and the gold •s reserve to £15,287,660! .1 WHEAT CROP. " ' The State's wheat yield Is 10,107,001) ~■ bushels, over a million below the esti.e mate. The area cropped showed an in.s urease of 107,584 acres.