AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1918, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

UNION OF CHURCHES. , Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Received March 6, 10-50 p.m. Sydney, March 0. The Methodist Conference passed a resolution in favor of the union of the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches. A DESERTER'S FORGERY. Received March (i, 10.50 p.m. Sydney, March 5. Manliffe. (whose case was cabled on February 21) pleaded guilty to forging a document whereby he obtained military payments. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The judge added: The New Zealand authorities desire that you be returned to England, whence you deserted, am! as soon as the military authorities are ready to send you 1 will make a recommendation that you be handed over. BLOOD STOCK SALE:i Received March (i, 10.50 p.m. Sydney, March li. At the Melbourne yearling sales, C. G. Mclndoe, of New Zealand, purchased a Berriedale—Georgia filly and a Bobadil— Sesso filly for a hundred guineas each; a Pistol—Bridge of Roses colt for 225 guineas, and a St. Anton—Wonderland colt for 110 guineas. ' . Though there is a slight falling off in' the entries for the A.J.C. autumn meeting, they compare well with last year, both in numbers and quality. INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION. Sydney, March 6. The Daily Telegraph, in an article on the development of industry as the indirect result of the war, Bays that since the outbreak of hostilities and the limitation of opportunities for transport many hundreds of thousands of pqunds have bee* invested in manufacturing enterprises. Factories are rapidly springing up, and an earnest effort is being made to make the country more selfsupporting in the day of commercial stress than is .forecasted when the blood lust of Germany has been quelled. The paper enumerates jiumbers of instances of firms spending large sums to increase production. One firm has invested £230,000, with an additional •t'50,000 to follow, and the article declares that fifty new industries could be written down offhand.