EMPIRE OUTPOSTS.
CANADA. A PATRIOTIC OFFER. LEGION OF FRONTIERSMEN. “TIMES” AND “SYDNEY SUN” SERVICES. Ottawa, 'Aug. 11. Mr. Patrick Burns, the Cattle King of Calgary, offers 50,090 dollars to equip a Legion of Frontiersmen. A USEFUL GIFT. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT. ] (Received 13, 9.0 a.m.) Ottawa, Aug. 12. The City has offered the Mother land a machine gun battery, with raptor trucks, men, and impediment a complete, costing £20,000. Private contractors are offering supplies free to re-paint the cruiser Niobe. ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP RAILWAY. (Received 13, 9 a.m.) Ottawa, Aug. 12.
An attempt was made to blow up the Canadian northern railway track at Parry Sounds. Troops are guarding the railway bridges throughout Canada.
AUSTRALIA.
VICTORIA. Melbourne, Aug. 12. The contributors in aid of the Ex peditionary Force include the Bens- ‘ dorp Company, which . has given 42,000 packages of cocoa. I A young German applying for naturalisation declared that the Kaiser had gone mad-and was trying to fight all the world. No other explanation was possible. THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. (Received 13, 11.15 a.m.) Melbourne, Aug. 13. Senator Millen announced that a I contingent was being prepared which would Ire officially called the Austra lian Imperial Expeditionary force. NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, Aug. 12. Over 5000 miners are on strike or idle owing to slackness of work in the Newcastle and Maitland dis, tricts. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. (Received 13, 9.25 a.m.) Adelaide, Aug. 13. The steamer Grantula is refitlint? as a hospital ship. QUEENSLAND. COPPER NOT CONTRABAND. . (Received 13, 11.15 a.m.) Brisbane. Aug. 13. The Federal authorities decided that Mount Morgan copper was not contraband and there would be no difficulty ut the shipping port. At Kembla employment conditions continue to he satisfactory. Add • .Sect :ou 11--Ernp Outposts cR(
INDIA.
CONSUL FOUND SHOT. (Received 13, 8.55 a.in.) Coloihbo, Aug. 12. The Italian Consul, a man of Ger man nationality, has been found shot. It is believed to be a case of suicide.
SOUTH AFRICA.
SHIPPING RESTRICTIONS ENFORCED.
(Received 13, 9.0 a.m.) London, Aug. 12. The aliens proclamation last week dealt only with Germans. The .restrictions on shipping in Table Bay have now been applied at Durban. Germans resident in or in the vicinity of the ports are required to surrender arms and ammunition. De Beer’s mine has closed down. UNION DEFENDS ITSELF. (Received 13, 8.10 a.m.) Capetown. Aug. 12.
The Union Government has-under taken the tiefence of South Africa.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 204, 13 August 1914, Page 5
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