MISCELLANEOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 11 October 1916, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS

, MELBOURNE, Oct. 10. Details of the Commonwealth expenditure shows that the war census cost £57,428, pay of censorship staff £29,----886, expenditure on interned enemy subjects, £225,844, deficiency in the administration of the late German New Guinea £110,000, and interest on .war loans from the Imperial Government £819,825. JThe Commonwealth Statistician announces that to September 1 there were 232,508 eligible men in Australia who had not enlisted.

The^ case has commenced in which the We'lsbacn Tight Company is claiming that the proclamation declaring the firm of enemy origin is ultra vires under the constitution, and asking for an injunction restraining the AttorneyGeneral from acting on the same, and claiming £65,000 damages.

SYDNEY, Oct. 10. Speaking at an* anti-conscription meeting, Mr Catts, member of the House of Representatives, said tint New Zealand k waiting to see the answer of Australian democracy before using her Compulsory Act to send men abroad.