NEWS IN BRIEF

Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14430, 23 October 1914, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

t (Successful social in. aid of S'fc. ; , Francis Church last night. Gerawani cruiser Emden has etmls nioire British snips in, B&y oif Bengal... Austrians caused £300,000 damage)' In South Poland. Germans are finding Antwerp another Moscow. Salt- by B^ekland 1 and SlonJsi atiWaitalwiiniru next FHd'ay. Nomiin-ations for .vacancy o)nf Borough Council close auexfc Thursday. Btitisih' naval jguinis <m> Belgiaaii ooiastjcause 1600 casuaities in. Germatt I trenches. Defence, minister states he ba®'l, heard no expressed desire'for-declara-tion! of moratorium. Geiimain flag from Court Bouse ai?'/ Samoa brs "been presented' to - Auckland City by Colonel M'aioir. Big icoinoeirti m King's theiattre on Tuesday in aid of Belgian Relier fund. Akiirtual m,e"eitliing TLttauek* ißbwr<mg. Cluty last, .might. Sunnrue^ pa»t:a.jef proniiiisets to be potpulal. T!h!am(£is Sleauioir Cadets -wiitih, conicierfc paa^ty vJisit Talpus toiinJoiir'aw 1 anigiht ort paittriibitiio fuaid! "v*enturei. Great rusn to join s&oond Canadian Continigion't, 8,000-having already en^ rolled Fkxpia fa:ctb.ry., 'in.- Kink Country,was only N.Z. ooaapeßloif at British, Dairy Shew. New Yorlc business cincfles insist; Germany isi purchasing lairge quant L~ i ties of commodities in America Bombai'dment of .Geirm-ans on (■■>< -%t near Ostend comtiniiea by Br Ikh! ships. ■ • , Mr Irrine, eye fspeci'ailiat is a.tl Thames to-day and ■ toHmorrpw-. He miay be seeji' at Bonjgard's ax>oniis. Am iur Lslund in Paicifio h>as beert occupied by Ausibralilaais. and wirelessrstation destroyed.. Portugal sending 12,000 men to- tihel*. front in France. Wlheni prepainaftiona complete, will hare 90,005 men. Pkiip'io factory, in King Coam!try>r ' Ditches.?! of Albany, killed while oil patrol duty on Western -front . Landslip! in Culebra; cut, whi^ hasbeen blocking Panamia Canal, ha® been, cleared. German, and: Austrian: rasiident® ivt Brighton have been, ordered' to quite witinmt few! days. French battleship Flandre oi 25,000^ tons, to carry 13.4 mdi guns, ha» been launchec! ait Brest. Czar has cotnsenited to' allow Ruissiiiain 1 reserYista deis:,r6!uisi of don'nig' so, to join N.Z. expeditionary ifo'rces. Tw gciO'dsi ivviaggoiß arrive a-ti Munich full of German soldiers whohave gone miad ofwhig to intolerable noise on ibaitlefield. , Libel aictioni .pending between tiwoi Christch'uncihi anierbhanits. in coaisequence of letter in press on. eTideneeat cost of liviriig commassiom. Govemiment iiioreaising adran'ces to settlena iandi for wofrkers' homeis: fromi £i 3:50 to 1 £400, hoping to alleviate building trade imemployment. . Typhoid ha^ assumed 1 eipidomie piror portioaiis oiw-mg to qtianteriaig of ia-r .fected; troops near Constaßiiinaplei ! matiQr supply. •' •'■'., „