AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 15777, 14 April 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

A HEALTHY SIGN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. "SYDNEY, April 14. (Received April 14, at 8.30 a.m.) The influx of men from the country districts over Eastertide has been responsible for an exceptionally Leary quota of enlistments in the rifle chibs, and Las proved a big feeder of recruiting. Since Juno 30 last the membership of rifle clubs in Now South Wales has increased from 14,500 to 01,000, and is still mounting steadily. VICTORIAN WATER SUPPLY COMMISSION. MELBOURNE, April 14. Mr Kattanacht, the second member of the Victorian Water Supply Commission, has been appointed to succeed Dr Elwood Mead as chairman. ENCOURAGING LOCAL INDUSTRY, SYDNEY, April 14. The Federal Government have placed with a Queensland firm an order for the rontniction of 20 railway engines for tho Trasnustralian Railway. MADAME NORDICA’S WILL. MELBOURNE, April 14. The legality of the will wliich the latx Madame Nor'dica. executed in 1910 is being questioned in tho United States Courts. It" is alleged that the famous yantatr.ice diow up a will while she was lying in the hospital at Thursday Island, under the terms of which her husband (Mr George Young, tho New York hanker) was deprived of anv share in the estate. Mr Bartlett, the’United States Vice-Consul in this city, has been despatched to Thursday Island to make inquiries. NO MORE DYES FROM GERMANY, MELBOURNE, April 14. Tim Beard <•{ Trade have revoked all licenses for the of dyes from enemv countries. It is considered that all Australia a requirements can ha supplied from England.