AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2551, 27 August 1915, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

ANTI-GERMAN CRUSADE

DISCUSSION IN NEW SOUTH WALES ASSEMBLY. By Tcleerapli—Preps Association—Copyright Sydney,' August 20. fn the Assembly Mr. Wade (Leader of tho Opposition) moved the adjournment of tho House to call attention to tile necessity of further limiting the freedom of persons of Gorman extraction. He quoted a case in wh'ich an officer of German, extraction was only, prevented going to the front by the united protest of tho rank and file, who refused to serve with him. Ho mentioned another case where, although, his two sons were with the troopsone as an officer and the other as a doctor—the father was strongly proGerman. Mi:. Holman (Premier), in reply, warned members against hysterical attacks on Germans'as Germans. Intern-, mont was only useful where it served, a military purpose. The people's main duty was to defeat the Gorman armies in Flanders, France, and the Dardanelles. The motion was negatived. THREATENED STRIKE OF. TELEPHONISTS.' ULTIMATUM TO THE MINISTER.' Sydney, August 26. A mass meeting of tho New South Wales Telephonists' Union passed a resolution to strike as a result of Mr. Spence's (Federal Postmaster-General) refusal to increase find compensate the men for night work. The carrying out of tho resolution has been left in tho hands of the union executive. , FATAL END TO A WALLABY HUNT. MAN SHOT BY HIS BROTHER. Sydney, August 26. A shooting tragedy lias occurred at Gosford. Two brothers, Frederick and Bert Ruff, went out wallaby shooting, and separated, Bert saw what he thought was a, wallaby moving in the thick underbrush, and fired. He.was horrified to discover that he had fatally elhot his brother. • ITEMS IN BRIEF. EARLY CLOSING IN HOTELS. Adelaide, August 26. In the Assembly tho Dili giving effect to 6 o'clock' closing of hotels was read a second 'time. • STATE BRICKWORKS.. _ Sydney, August 26. The State, brickworks show a profit for the year of £7579.