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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 226, 22 September 1915, Page 1

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Laat Saturday there were 20l inmate .it. the CoJtley Home. The rurabor of eoldien in hospital :n New Zealand just now w 333. The 4.>00-ton British steamer Liakfl'.oor has been Mink, the crew rn-ing rescued. Tie Ottoman authorities have advi.«ed civilians to f-'et out of Conetantinople. Fifty-five thousand Welch miners h**e passed' a retolution agaln«t conscription. The Sue?, mail, whirh left here, ou August 4, arrived in London on September 17. ilarlv marriages arc reromruendel by the Prussian (iov.rnm.-nt to restore the uastag.. of war. Ne« South Wales lias ir.a.ie a net loft * of X'ZISI'2 on the fourteen State euurprise* it control*. A syndicate representing the whole of financial Amcrior'a to underwrite the loan ior the Allies.' A German aeroplane was fl.vin;; o"'f Bulgaria, Alien it hid to descend, and the crew were intc.-n<--d. For selling pork at a price higher than that fixed by the" Government, a Sydney The fall of Vilna will not permanently affect the says the •'limeo' cor respondent at I'etrograd.* (In, Cookson, aged 60, and her frranddaughter, aged two years, were burneJ to death in a fire at Fcndalton. Before leaving '\ ilua the Kuaeian«, it .- eaid, stripped the oty of ail melal.t. even to the belle of the churches. The riiet queen candidate in connection with tbe forthcoming Auckland quern carnival, ha™ 1 been nominated. Auetro-Ofrman b'atteriee are said to have been bombarding the Servians on the bank* of (he S*v» and the Danube. Rus.ia claim* to have taken 70,000 prwonera between tbe end of the Ruulan Autruiit »nd the beginning o( September. During the pant fortnight the Auckland Charitable Aid Hoard had 23 nr.v canes of dutrens to deal with, and , >i old (H«, \t*tiw end of the financial year ..rcat Britain will be .pending £:),000,u<>0 a d*r on the war, cays the Chancellor of the Exchequer A poll for the election of two member* to the Di-vonnort Borough Council ie in progress today. There arc four candidates. Victorian Government is »dva.ndng £50,(MH) to a*s»t dairymen in replenishing their herds, which were decimated by the drought. Turkish priest* aro opposed to the Young Turks tin J the »Sr, nl their action is eaid to have had a jj: Jt pflect, ou the people. The evidence at the inquest respecting the drath of Mr- U'-orge Lovegrove, showed thai lie hail Won subject to con--1 aiderablc ItaaneuU worry. I Two JiUßlred Can were cut off by a rtr« which brehi out in the shaft of * Warwickehlr* SoHiny, »>'t the majority have been reamed. Tw boJie* have been recovered. The B.J. I'aloona struck t> weck-enu pale oil the E»»t (j'oarti and hart a rcm?h voyage of 20 Hours between Napier and' Wellington, a run usually made in 10 hours. Staggering increaeM in the taxes i proposed in the Budget statement made veaU'rday in the House of Common* by Mr. MrKcnna. The income tax goes a;> 40 per cent. - The public delit of Xew South now stands at £137.735.403. Clairtc to 05-> war pensions. Involving an annual expenditure ol £30,000, hdo been proved in Australia. John Pcarre (66) a waterside worker from <Jrcr Lynn, -was struck on the head by » »Hng when working at the King , * wharf yesterday, gettfn.2 R nasty scalp wound. Along statement by vcar.Jagow, tho German ' Foreign MintatMi gives ...it_ out that bubmarjne cotnm*ndeiS have precise instructions- not to torpnlo eiwray passenger ships without warning. A* correspondent at Bucharest says that the Germanic powers liaVe abandoned their attack on Servia, as they were aware that in such a contingency the Rumanians would Intervene. "Let the workingraen- be given a fair opportunity of showing that the voluntary system w not a failure," Raifl Mr J. il. Tfcomae, M.P.. in ihe course of an hnporUnt speech to nulwaymen. The qriestton of conscription should not be used as n means of 'poisoning our own well*," Bays Lord Curzon. Hβ apncaU tn the newsyapera no: to- manufacture discord out of tho- problem. Although tho Riaeian army that occupied Vilna has Apparently escaped, it U still in a position tff the greatest .difficulty, owing to strong forces on its eastern flank, save a '■Times" correspondent. The Wellington Tetmis Association has decided not to play provincial rnnmpionships and inter-club competitions this sen- | win. Instead, v metropolitan tourney will l>e held for tho benefit of the Patriotic Fund. A conviction has been recorded against the" Amalgamated W'irale**, Ltd., of Australasia, on a charge of having traded with the enemy by entering into a contract to take over certain patents from a rival firm. When winter earned the Allies' forces on the Dardanelles will be in a ba>! way, save a ■German ne"»tspapeT. It »» ?ur " mfsed that the terrific >;ales which sweep over the pemnsiil* will make communication by steamer very difficult In the Suprenje Court at Mastertnn the trustees of .Morrison -« Hii>h- Hall wrre awarded £4IX) damage* from the F«ath«?rston County Coudril <<" e«-ount of the destruction of the hall by tire caused by .sparks from an eugiae attached to dcieuJonts' road roller. In the course trf hij address in Urn cssce against Arthur Kidman and others for conspiring to defraud the Defence Department of Australia, the counsel engaged said that in one instance "Kidman received £11.2114 for good.- tor winch hp poid £ti3T5. Isabella M. Woodward, a marriM woman, died suddenly ~t her home- in Buralcy Ttu-ra,.-., Mi." i:..«-kr.l. ye.terday, and Mr*, Haminoml taged SI years), living at Wa.'hi-e Street. Punsenby, ,il = n ill"'l suddenly. In both ra=rrf death in ■ -iin.-i leir.l to be d:ie to nattjrjl I-OUIM*S. The Harbour Hoard has n.v-Wed to erect nn abc-lisk in memory of ik,* c ~f its employee-! who have f.i!lc:i at (Jaflipoli; iv movement'is afoot a:non; t"h« Mt. Kden srhooj scholar* nntl committee to have :i worthy nieninrial ;it ;:;.■ fclioiil to old boys who have fal>n i> the iron:. Hycroffa ideal milk nrrowroot hUcuiti for baby. Crisp, dainty, delicious. ill grocers.—(Ad.)