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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15612, 9 June 1916, Page 8

The Commonwealth Executive luu approved of a regulation under the. War Precautions Act which makes it! an offence for any person who receives' allotment pay in respect of a soldier on activo service to assign, pledge, or in any way mortgage tho allotment certificate. Aiiy assignment made prior to the issue of the regulation"u ;t void from the date of the issue ofthe* regulation. Any person, or the. nun." ager or responsible officer of a corporate body who accepts an assignments allotment pay is guilty of an offeiee, and the allottee can demand tho'retarn v of the allotment certificate. Another.> regulation under the War Precaution* Act applies tho provisions of the aliea V restriction order issued last respect of alien enemies to any British : stib.jcct who is also the subject of an - -/: jnemy State to the samo extent M if tho person concerned were not V.'v British subject. . Any person whose ' conduct has been such as to show that;; ..he considers himself an enemy subject, •' or who has been considered by- onenemy sovereign or State as a subject, ' may also be taken to bo an enemj subject. •' • Senator Lynch (a member for Wisi. v, crn Australia) moved in the Federal:.' Senate on Thursday week—"That inthfty r opinion of the Senate, the n:nne of-tiii . ■ Federal capital should be changed froni: Canberra, and the capital j-echristenejf Anzac." He said the wordTAnxac stwil 21 for the gallant Australians and Njr • Zealanders, not for the liberty nation, but for tliat of all nations; Americans were always proud ofrtli/ name Washington for their - had a meaning. Ho could not see^inj l '' significance in the word Canberra;viOia • ■ adoption of the name Anzac would'hejp to link up New Zealand with AustirtfKjjm. and would also stimulate men to greater' deeds of bravery. Senator do Lame, (Western Australia) seconded tion, Tho Assistant-Minister .(Seiator w Russell) said lie regretted that .tHoi.tip- j vernnient could' not agree with','regard , to the necessity of a change or'tfieide* sirableness of adopting tho Suppose, lie said, it were the good for- ■ tune of the Australians to bo the first • into Berlin, it would be no good' re#*- ■ son the changing of tho name of '■ the capital to Berlin. A report on tho climate and r re* 1 ' sources of Macquarie Island by. iff • A. S. Tujloch, who was meteorological" observer there for the year preceding the abandonment of tho station in v December last.- was tabled in the" Tas- V " manian Legislative Council last wcekv Tho weather seems to consist of wind and :ain, varied by falls of ', snow. During the year which Mr Tul- 1 ' ' loch spent there only about 30 dny»* ' passed .without either rain' or snovrj falling. ' When Mr Tulloch went down", some ducks and fowls, and also a numvy ber of sheep/were landed. The fotvlr,did not do very well; it was too cold * and wet for them, but the ducks fared*' better, and in tho last -month foiir„o("» them laid 120 eggs. The she.ep adapt- T j ed themselves to. the conditions, and 1 there were a number of lambs, thoughsome of them perished in tho colu, wet weather. .Mr Tulloch expressed £.• the opinion that o sheep, once they-be- [ came jvould do .-fairly i well on the tussocks and Maori'cab- j bage of the island, and that thd V land would maintain a good many thousands of them. v ' 7$ An incidental ray of light was c«»t' >• on one 0 f the secret places of life in Auckland by a remark made in : the Police Court tho other day (siyl.j the "Star"), when a drapery sulesnwa%:j was giving evidence respecting who was charged with forgery. .5te;"??, accused was a married man, evidence was to the effect that forged a cheque for £25, and in ower^ 1 to get the cheque cashed he had go»& . to a drapery shop and bought an coat for £1 19s 6d, tendering the for cheque in payment. When the man was making out tho cash receip%||': he said, the purchaser asked make it out for £2 19s 6d, as he didn't gi. want his wife t 0 know he had paid : much for the coat. Tho salesman ed in court that, he had complied the request, and added that it waandt 1 at all an uncommon request in hi»;«<t perience in the shop. Evidently ouite usua] for Auckland husband^^ifEaive- evidence thus order to demonstrate to their halves" their ability to got ' 4-'