AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2663, 7 January 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

A FLYING SQUADRON FOR THE FRONT By Telegrapli—Presß Ascooiatlon—Copyrlglii Melbourne, January 0. The authorities aro sending ail Australian flying squadron to the front. The men will be trained in the Commonwealth, and tko machines obtained from England. Colonel Reynolds will command. IN GAMP. RIFLEMEN'S BATTALION. Sydney, January 6. Three hundred and fifty riflemen, the jrst instalment < f the Hon. A. C. Carmichael's Riflemen's Battalion, have gone into camp. [The Hon. A. C. Carmichael (an exMinister), in a letter (written in November) to Mr. Holm an (State Preicier), declining the latter's offer for an appointment as Commissioner for Irrigation, says: "I have dccided that in this hour of the nation's most crucial need, if fresh responsibilities are t.n be undertaken, I should bo in the tiring line. I have therofore decided to enlist for service at the front." Mr. Carmichael, as launcher of the Rifle Club movement, considers that the clubs have been inadequately exploited for soldiers, and has set himself the taßk of raising a Riflemen's Battalion of one thousand within the next month.] SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON. ACCEPTED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE Melbourne, January 8. ,Sir Douglas Mawson, is seeking to bo accepted for active service. He will probably be appointed to command a company of engineers •in the new army. MOTORS REPLACE HORSES. . FOR THE MAIL SERVICES. Melbourne, January 6. ' Mr. Webster, Postmaster-General, stated that the Department had been forced ,to discard horses for motors for the mail services in order to maintain tlieir efficiency. This meant increasing the cost by 300 per cent. Ho suggested that the Government should overcome the increased expenditure by es. • ta Wishing its own motor services and carrying mails and passengers. FEDERAL LABORATORY. A CONFERENCE HELD. Melbourne, January 6. The Prime Minister (Hon. W.. M. Hughes) presided at- a conference concerning • a Federal Laboratory scheme. He pointed out that it was necessary to train the nation in scientific thought i'tom primary schools, so that scientific methods would permeate the whole national life The laboratory would be . simply a centre of a wide movement. A. strong committeo was appointed to formulate a working scheme. SEIZED WHEAT. ' EXTRA COMPENSATION ASKED. Sydney, January 6. As the result of appeals for extra compensation for seized wheat, the Commodities Commission has recommended the payment of an additional threepence per bushel. , CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC, STATE SCHOLARSHIPS FIXED. Sydney, January 6. ■ The Minister of Education ■ has- approved the establishment of thirty-one State scholarships in connection with • ; the Conservatoriura of Music. .tasmanian revenue. ' . Hobart, January 6. The half-yearly, revenue totals £628,-, 096, an increase of. £28,304 over the : Baine period last year. J LORD MAYOR OF SYDNEY. j ALDERMAN MEAGHER APPOINTED j Sydney, January 6. ' The Cabinet has decided to appoint. Alderman Meagher Lord Mayor, thus 1 ending the deadlock which occurred by two candidates tieiiig for the office. j NO CHOICE MADE. (Rec. January 6, 9.45 p.m.) ' Sydney, January 6. It transpires that yesterday's Cabinet mee-ting did not reach finality in the choice of a Lord Mayor. At another meeting to-day it was decided that i Mr. Holnian (Premier) should make certain inquiries, and report to a I further meeting on Tuesday. i :• ' l STRIKE OF COAL MINERS. i ; POSITION UNCHANGED. . '(Rec. January 0, 11.25 p.m.) i • Sydney, January 6. ' The South Coast. and Maitland mines 1 are still idle, aiid the position is un- 1 changed. —' i

PROMINENT MEN ENLIST. AND AS PRIVATES. (Rec. January 6, 8.50 p.ni.) Sydney, January 6. Mr. Stamfortli Smith, Administrator of Papua, and Mr. M'Don'ald, member of Parliament ,for 'Bingara, have enlisted as privates. ; OFFICERS IN CAMP. OFFERED AN OPTION. (Rec. January 6, 8.50 p.m.) Melbourne, January 6. The authorities have announced that all officers in training camps not volunteering will be demobilised, and their places taken by promoted non-coms. V SUICIDE OF A NURSE. EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. (Rec. January G, 9.45 p.m.) Sydney, January 6. At the inquest on the body of Viola Tearl Milner, otherwise known as Nurse S't. George, who shot herself in a bedthe evidence was to the effect 'that she told her 6ister thai sho loved a, man, and was worrying about him, and that she intended to commit suicide.