AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 29 September 1915, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

VARIOUS INTERESTING ITEMS(Eec. 8.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, his Day. There has been considerable improvement in recruiting "during the past few days. A committee of employers has been, formed to assist the Government in finding work for returned soldiers. FREMANTLE, This Day. A steamer has returned from a fruitless search for the steamer Yeddo, reported last week as disabled by a broken tail shaft, two hundred miles south east of Albany. The Yeddo was bound* from Texas to Fremantle with an oil cargo. (Reed. 9.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. In the Assembly a two months' Supply Bill for £3,297,530 was passed. A Royal Commission to inquire into the administration 'of patriotic funds: is asked for. | MELBOURNE, Tjais Day. Mr Peacock said the Ministry rejected Liberal members' proposals for resignation of the Cabinet. They resolved to remain in office until the iers' conference carried a motion requesting State Governments to formulate plan s for the issue of a loan and! the management of State debts by a single authority. As a result of the Government's decision to curtail .racing during the war, Mr John Wren has agreed to cut dowit unregistered fixtures by 25 per cent.