FARMS FOR SOLDIERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 17038, 13 December 1915, Page 8

FARMS FOR SOLDIERS.

SYDNEY. December 11. The Hon W. G. Asnford states that 3000 farms, of which 1000 arc reserved for soldiers, will be made available in 1916. MACARTNEY ENLISTS. SYDNEY, December 11. C. G. Maoavtuey, the international cricketer, has eiitiisted. ALL-ROUND CONSCRIPTION.

ADELAIDE, December 11. The Council of the United Labour Party has decided to advocate tlie compulsory gathering of wealth in conjunction with compulsory personal service, but to oppose compulsory personal service without that of wealth.

THE DELAYING STRIKES.

UNION SECRETARY'S COMMENT.

" A BETTER BATTLE FOR

GERMANS."

SYDNEY, December 11. A strike of engineers at the Broken Hill Proprietary's steel works in Newcastle is holding up The blacksmiths are supporting the engineers. The secretary of the Blacksmiths' Union having failed to iuouce the mo.i to obey the executives order to resume, declared. " Unless there is some influence similar to what is at work in American factories, I cannot understand these strikes. The men are fighting a better batttlo for ■ the Germans than for unionism.

AUSTRALIAN NAVY.

DESTROYER SWAN LAUNCHED.

(Received December 12, 5.5 p.m.)

SYDKEY, December 12. The destroyer Swan has been launched. (The Swan is a sister vessel to the other destroyers in the Australian Navy and she is the third launched in Sydney, though the Warrcgo was built at Govan a.nd merely erected in Sydney. The displacement, of the Swan is 700 tons, and her designed speed is twentysix knots. She will carry one 4-inch and three 3-inch guns. Another destroyer of the same typo, the Torrcns, is being built.)