AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16123, 11 January 1916, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

LATEST CASUALTY LIST. NEW ZEALAND NAMES. (Received January 10, 11.5 p.m.) Sydney, January 10. Casualty list No. 131 contains the following New Zealand names: 111: Sergeant S. A. Darby, Driver J. T. Primmer (in hospital at Ghezireh), Privates A. Cameron and W. Kennedy (in hospital at Abbassia), J. Williams (at Gibraltar), A. J. Higgs (at Heliopolis). Returned to •duty: Corporal A. R. Trailp, Lance- ..... Corporal R. D. Chaliaersr and Private C. Chamberlain. LIKE A SNOWBALL. SUCCESSFUL ROUTE MARCH. :'-'■' ■:- , Sydney, January 10. The, route march from Narrabri to , . Newcastle, starting eight strong finished 180 strong. j NEW RECRUITING SCHEME. WARNING TO OPPONENTS. Melbotjene, January 10. ' The Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Hughes, has warned disloyalists that anything done to prejudice recruiting, will be visited with condign punishment. He ' referred to the resolutions passed by various bodies advising people not to fill in recruiting cards as a most ill-advised proceeding. He believed that those voting for such measures had been misled by specious misrepresentations of the Government's scheme as a form of conscription. This was : utterly misleading, as the scheme differed from conscription as night differs from day. MUNITION WORKS STOPPED. PAYMENT FOR OVERTIME. Sydney, January 10. It is stated that a scheme for the manufacture of munitions at the railway workshops has been dropped owing to the men refusing to accept less than time and a-half in payment for necessary overtime. i COMMONWEALTH WAR LOAN . . Melbourne, January 10. The Federal Treasurer is appealing to everyone receiving over.£3oo a year -to subscribe to the second Commonwealth War Loan. \