IN TILE COMMONWEALTH

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 12 August 1914, Page 5

IN TILE COMMONWEALTH

HANDSOME CONTRIBUTIONS

SYDNEY, Aug. 11. The chairman of the Australian Jockey Club submits to the amiual meeting a proposition to donate £10,000 to patriotic purposes. The Mayors of Melbourne. Perth afc/1 Adelaide have opened war funds. The Messageries Company's sailings are all deferred. MELBOURNE. Aug 11. The expeditionary force comprises one light horse brigade and one division of volunteers, who are thronging the barracks everywhere. Victoria and New South Wales will contribute a brigade each, and other States a battalion. A thousand men will form the third brigade. Mr Cook, the Premier, speaking at the Mayor's lunch, said the financial institutions of Australia were sound, and the Government intended seeing them and the workmen through the crisis. He believed this was the most righteous war for many generations.. "We are fighting to keep our word of honor," he concluded. Tho City Council voted £500.

ADELAIDE, Aug, 11. The Racing Club decided to contribute halt* the profits of tne Grand National meeting to the war fund. PERTH, Aug. 11. A Royal Commission has been appointed to fix food prices. HOB ART, Aug. 11. Tasmania will commence the enrolment of volunteers. The embargo against notifying the departure of 6versea vessels has been rei moved. Advices have been received that the German mail steamer Roon, due at Fremantle last Monday, is sheltering at a neutral port in Java. Many Australian passengers are,aboard. Dixon's Tobacco Trust has offered £5000 as a mieleus of a fund to purchase and send flour and meat to the Imperial Government.