AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 16991, 13 March 1919, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Press A»*o«l*tion—By Telegraph—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

SYDNEY, March 12. •Gorman internees at Hoidsworthy continue to give trouble, five having escaped during the past week. A guard fired at two others who were endeavoring to get through the wire. One was wounded. Both eurrendered. A triple tragedy is feared at Watson’s Bay Gap, where clothing has bean found at the cliff, indicating that Mrs Hart and two children,’ who disappeared, have gone. The baby’s body was subsequently recovered in the harbor. .... Th o Farmers’ Conference resolved to ask the Government to guarantee that the minimum price for wheat for the next three years be 5b 6d per bushel, f.o.h. March 15. Sunday next has been proclaimed a day of thanksgiving for the breaking of the drought. . . Mr J. S. Marks, a prominent hanker, has been appointed to be chairman of the Public Service Board. MELBOURNE, Match 13. In order to secure men for the Australian navy the Government ore offering increased rates ranging from 6d to Is a day above the Royal Navy rates, and a gratuity of £25 to men re-enli«fcing. The new Federal Electoral Act, providing for postal and preferential voting, for one roll for both ■Commonwealth and State elections, and for the enfranchisement of all members of the Expeditionary Force, comes into operation on March 21.