AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XL, Issue 11387, 2 October 1915, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received October 3, 0.25 a m. Melbourne, October 2.

The Coal Trade Conference arrived at no decision but the parties are conferring. in ‘coiiheotion with the Trades Hall affray three men have been arrested.

Bydney, October 2.

Women are Instigating an antiJiqnor crusade. A large number of letters in the Press demand early closing. Brisbane, October 2.

Six per cent of Papua’s population have enlisted and the war funds total £2OOO.

Sydney, Ocotber 2. The weather is fine and race prospects bright. A prominent mine director declares that the Imperial and Commonwealth authorities, in holding up all Australian supplies of wolfram, Molybdenite, scheelite and other alloys are playing into the hands of the enemy owing to the creation of a new metal exchange, and fixing prices nearly a hundred thousand pounds worth of munitions metal is locked up. Melbourne, October 3.

The Mount Lyell Company has decided to take over the option of the Tasmanian Copper and Hercules and Primrose Company’s. Wheat is nominal. Flour £l7. Oats, Chilian, 8s Id to 8s 6d; Japanese, 2s o)Jd.

Maize 4s 9d. Bran, £4. Pollard, £B. Potatoes £8 10s to £9 os. Onions, £5 10s to £5 15s.

MURDER OF A PLANTER.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Brisbane, October 1.

A well-known Sydney planter and trader, named Lacyock, was murdered on the Island ot Makira, in the Solomon Group. He was engaged on a recruiting tour, and was standing in a diughey talking to a recruiter when a native suddenly struck him on the neck with an axe, almost severing his head. The crime is inexplicable, as the Makira boys, it is quite well-known, liked Laycock. The murderer escaped to tne busn.