MISCELLANEOUS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 12, 15 January 1915, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

LONDON. Jan. 14

Mr Hedmond was re-elected" president or /the United Irish League.1* A resolution was adopted congratula^ ting Ireland on the triumphant ending of the forty years' Home Rule agitation. It was resolved, in view of the critical situation of the Empire, that the continued existence of the national organisation until the crisis had passed was vitally essential.

The Admiralty has requisitioned a number of the enemy's steamships 'interned in the United Kingdom for employment in tthe coastal trade. Turner, the Scottish Rugbyciirternational, was killed in action. The Rev. Huxen Sams, of the Queensland Bush Brotherhood, failing to get „ a chaplaincy, obtained a commission iin the Duke of Cornwall's liig'ht Infantry. • SYDNEY, Jan. 15.

A letter received from Dr Mac Lean, one of the party sent to the Antarctic in search of Sir Douglas' Mawson, states that he and four other members of the party who went to England—> Captain Bage, Madigan, Bickerton, ,andHodgnmn—have joined t]fcie British forces at the front.

MELBOURNE, Jan. 15, Mr Jensen stated 'that he has decided to place contracts to etjuip the transports with private fiitos, as (the State dockyard is not completing them fast enough, and 'also because it is employing non-unionists, which is against the Federal Government's iprinciples..