LATE DOMINION NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 17 June 1914, Page 6

LATE DOMINION NEWS.

+—■ AUSTRALASIAN TRADE. GERMANY'S~INTE^ T TIONS. PBB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, June 16. 1 Some further information regarding the assault by Germany on. Australasian trade was received in business circles j by to-day's English mail. It appears that the German Association for the World's Commerce, one of the greatest trade combines ever known, has had the present move in mind for considerably over 18 months. When the mail left England there was apparently no concern in German trade circles regarding the Norddeutscher Lloyd contract; it was a foregone conclusion that the contract for the Australian service would not be allowed to lapse. The most important development in connection with Germany's new move, however, has just coma to light. A 'Times' representative learnt that two trade commissioners appointed by the Association of the Worlds Commerce would arrive in New Zealand about the beginning of September. One of them will take up his permanent quarters in Wellington and the other will be stationed in Australia. Later it is proposed to coon a branch, office for the German Trade Commissioner at Auckland. Already, it is understood, office accommodation has been secured both in Wellington and Auckland for the purposes of the commissioner. Recently German business firms subscribed £12,500 to advertise German goods in Australia, and this sum was subsidised £1 for £1 by the German Government. This, it is stated, waa at the instigation of the Kaiser, i who is reported kfbe taking an extraordinary amount of personal interest in the new development. It is understood l that the two German commissioners who are coming to Australasia will have the spending of £25,000, to be devoted purely to advertising. , j

HAMILTON SU. . ..IE COURT. I HAMILTON, June 16. A young native, Tu Pomare, of Hunt-' ly. was sentenced to 18 months' im- 1 prisonment at the Hamilton Supreme Court to-day • before Mr Justice Edwards for the theft of a gold chain and brief bag. William Ready, a youthj and Isaac Hunt, an elderly half-caste, were acquitted on charges of indecent assault on girls under 16. W. Stome, of Hawera, convicted of the theft of a horse, and S. Carter, of Te Aroha, convicted of the theft of three cows, were admitted to probation.

HORSE SALES IN MELBOURNE. HASTINGS, .Time 16. Cable advice has been received that Mrs J. D. Ormond's heavy draught colt, Glen Even, by Ruther Glen, from L'.z, which was withdraw)): from the last Melbourne sales owing to having met with; an accident, has been sold to a leading Queensland draught horsebreeder for 350 guineas. The three entries from tlxe Kararrm Stud which had been disposed of >'n the Commonwealth realised an aggregate of 1450 guineas—a fairly good indication that in Australia at any rate a chance to secure oldfashioned heavy type horses is still highly appreciated. INTERESTING JUDGMENT. PALMER.STON, June 16. Judgment jn the case, Manawatu Flaxmill Employees' Firon v. Franks, claim for the amount of levy struck on a mandate from the Federation, of Labor on March 1, 1913, was delivered by Mr Po>nton, S.M V this morning. : The magistrate decided that the obIject of the union did not cover the raising of a fund to fight compensation

cases in the Arbitration. Court to be controlled by another body, and judgment was given accordingly for the de r J fendant.