COMMONWEALTH ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 October 1914, Page 7

COMMONWEALTH ITEMS.

"BY GAULE^-PEESS ASSOCIATION--COPYEIGHT,

(Received Oct. 23, 12.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Oct. 20

Lord Liverpool has written to Sir R. .-Munro Ferguson, the Governor-Genel---ral, on behalf of the Government and of-. Now Zealand,. appreciating the privilege, of association with the -Navy in the Samoan operations. A proclamation lias been issued stipulating soldiers' liability under matern•:ity . orders find authorising deduction cfrom their pay.

Trade circles suspect that since the •••declaration 'of war quantities of sheep--skins have been shipped to Germany, > via America. :

ADELAIDE, Oct. 23

At a meeting to form a branch", of the -Navy League, Mr Owen Smyth, refev.ring to the leniency accorded to Germans and Aiistrians, ■ said he knew as •clearly as. any man can know without •l)eing in a position to prove it, that a man. in the Government employ had .•given valuable information to Berlin.