AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.
(Received July 24. 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July 24. Ofhcihl figures show that the wheat nool's net indebtedness to the Imperial Government and banks to July 17 ' was £9,044,000. The. wheat shipped was 9,742,000 bags. The local sal?s were 6.503,000. Cash receipts totalled £11,---£94,000. Tlie Minister of Defence states that/ he is now under an Obligation to desA patch 11.800 reinforcements monthly. SYDNEY, July 24. Sixty thousand attended an anti-con-«cription meeting at the Domain. When the meeting attempted; to- carry -a motion expressing U»compr6mi»ing "hostir lity to conscription >the crowd broke the police cordon and forced the! anticonscriptionists to desist. Further meetings have been prohibited v ■'■"■• The Government intend to allocate £20,000 to encourage metal prospecting. A battery of Australian-made trench liowitzers have been successfully tested. It is the first artillery made mi Australia. '.-..-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14052, 24 July 1916, Page 4
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