AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10107, 15 October 1917, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(HV (PKh i I UKBB Ah«(x:iatiun.) SYDNEY, On. IS. ,Joseph Buttle has boon awarded ,IM2(K) damages, by coiisont, against tho j Union Company for in | nrios by ]an explosion on Un* NVuinina in Sep- ; tombor, 191 (j. I MELBOURNE, Oct. Ui. | Mr Hughe*, replying i<» Opposition oh urges Unit t]io Government was the joanso of tho increased cost of living, stall'd that tho Intor-Stato Coin mission’s investigation had revealed no exploitation in the price of bread as fixed. Meat was not controlled by any combine of profiteers, either in the sipsply of stock, or amongst wholesalers and retailors. i BRISBANE, Oct. 13. I Tho Premier, referring' to the appointments to the Upper House, stated that ii was not die intention of the Government to swamp (lie Council. dUBBOCUNR, Oet. 15. The Inspect i Ueneral of Insane, n his annual rep, it, says licit the war has not increased nsanily in the ('onmionwealth, though indivuhnil cases may have been precipitated. So far the mnnher of permanenl cases among returned soldiers was comparatively small. In 19 instances pI coholic excess was a contributing cause, j BVDXf’.Y, o<d. 14. I After TaUcrsall’s meeting, at Randwick yesterday, the tea hmifo in the paddock was dust roved I>\ fire, The damage is estimated' at flßDOti,