IN AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17251, 19 August 1916, Page 10

IN AUSTRALIA.

AUSTRALIAN LOAN. SUBSCRIPTIONS TOTAL £22,276,000 By Telegraph— Press Aswoiation— Cppjrright. MELBOURNE, August 18. The war loan subscriptions total £22,276,2-00. SHIPPING EMBARGO. STATEMENT BY FEDERAL MINISTERSYDNEY, August 18. The Hon D. R. Hall, Attorney-Gen-eral, states that as price fixing is now a Federal matter there is no longer any embargo on the shipment of produce out of tho State. CASUALTIES. WOUNDED IN FRANCE. SYDNEY, August 18. Private S. B. Atkin has-been danger-, ously wounded in France. His brother, Corporal Atkin, recently returned from Shackleton’s expedition, and will shortly be . leaving . in the 'New Zealand forces, '