AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9590, 6 September 1913, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) Received September 6. 9.45 a.m. SYDNEY, Sepf. 6. On tho grounds of the Judge's misdirection of the jury, Brown has obtained leave to carry,his appeal against hie conviction for murdering Hickey, to the High Court.

A man named Max Sellirifc has been sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude for possessing and using materials for forging notes of the National Bank of Australasia.

Received September 6, 10.10 a.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 6. In order to cater for the growing demand for Australian frozen meat on the Continent tlie Messageries Company intends next year to replace the present Australian services by larger and more up-to-date vessels.

British Parliamentarians arc touring the North Coast districts. At the sale of the late Mr J. C. Williamson's etud tlie top prioe was for Fortune Hunter, 500 guineas. MELBOURNE. Sept. 6. Mr Cook (Federal Premier) promised to oonsider tho request of a deputation to grant £SOOO towards equipping the Aurora to bring back tho Mawson party and wip ing off the debts of the expedition. Pro fcssor David, in urging the claims, said the indebtedness of the exjiedition was £II,OOO, towards which they had about £6OOO. He pointed out the scientific importance of the expedition to Australia, particularly as regards weather forecasting. l)r. Mawson had succeeded beyond oxidations in obtaining valuable information on Antarctic disturbances. Many 'shipwrecks each year might be averted. The golf doubles championship was won by Whitton and (Victoria), with a aoore of 155.

At chess, Gundersun retains the Victorian championship, having defeated Steel by live games to three. Mr Macpherson, a Liberal, has been elected to tho Hawthorn scat in the Assembly, rendered vacant through Mr Swinburne accepting an appointment on the Inter-State Commission. The State Cabinet has declined a sub tidy to a line of steamers trading with tho East.

BRISBANE. Sept. 6. Obituary: Mr Cribb, a Legislative Coun cillor.