AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13990, 12 May 1916, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SYDNEY, May 11. - 4 Casualty- list No. 168 shoAVs: '—■•■ • <" w KUled'iin action:: Private J;. Bowman. l+l«^Se.Qon4-I<ieut. Gr» S. Adams. Re"tui"iic«l- to-* duty :> S'ergfc.- Major -..W- H. O'Hara, Privates G.rMcCbiiachie, L. A'; Blacky. C. Casing, V. Turner, :B* 0. T. Gibbs, J. Caliinan> and '£.< Butcheu (Received May 12, 10.20 a.m.) X «* ' •; ; ,, ■ . • ,: SYDNEY,. May 12. ■ V '**Tli« Shires Association .Conference carried a motion m favor o£ conscription tk 4., motion suggesting.; the elec--toral disqualification of sliirkevs was defeated* . .:. . MELBOURNE, May 12---i In . 4,he. House ot VRtepresentatives : Mr Cook, denounced- the > Labor Conference activity m >, war time.- , He stated that Ministers had 'degraded .themselves by attending and being, censured. ?*Ma' Tiulok,« m reply ;to a . question, said G^(n4ny?.:,had not consulted -Australia with .regard to it separate pe&ce. ■ Mr Mahoji has received from the High Commissioner of £bo. Western Pacific a pjbcia^nation , providing- for the extension; of boundaries of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands; . the Cro\\:n colony to > include Ocean, Fanning, and Washington Islands. tn the Senate the Soldiers' Repatriation Bill has been introduced . The Go? veraiHfcnl autends- asking Parliament to" vote £250,000 towards the fund.