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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 239, 6 October 1916, Page 1

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General Brussiloff is once more movin« towards Lemberg. Slot telephone cabinet to ibe erected in Surrey Crescent. Farmers' Freezing Company is renting freezing room for fish to City Council. Lethal chamber for stray dogs recommended by Works Committee of City j Council. « I The Auckland parade of the 18th. Reinforcements will take place on Saturday week. | A Yorkshire woollen mill was burned down, the damage 'being estimated at £00,000. City Council is asking the Tramways Company when Grey X>ynn tramway is to be duplicated. Union Steamship Company's shares have been sold at 56/ on the London; Stock Exchange. Another Zeppelin 'has been destroyed by French airmen, according to the Germans' own admissions. A uniform fruit case for the export trade is being advocated by the N.S.W. Agricultural Department. Several lame Zeppelins were eeen straggling home across the North." Sea, after the last raid on England. The Serbian success against the Bulgarians is reported to be even more satisfactory than was at first thought. Lieut. H. S. Richards, Essex Regiment, who was the New Zealand Rhodes Scholar for 1915, has been wounded. City Council in committee last night authorised the Public Services Committee to purchase a second fishing trawler. Matters on the Somme front are once more quiet,, with the exception of considerable artillery activity on the part of v the Germans. Strenuous efforts are being made by. the enemy to defend the country between Kovel and Lemberg, which is considered of vital interest. The City Council's salary list was . revised- in committee last night. Economy •was in evidence, increases being granted only in special cases. i Bankruptcy is staring the Greek Govl eminent in the face. There is said to be, only £14,000, in hand to pay. salaries amounting to £800,000. City Council -forwards complaints that tramway services are inadequate between 7.20 and 7.40 a.m. on Grey Lynn and Dominion Road lines. Thomas Parkinson, a consumptive patient accommodated at the Costley Home, -was found dead in his room last evening with his throat cat. Thirteen inches, of rain have fallen in New South Wales- during the past ; ten days. The floods have become serious, and many people are homeless. A native, was killed at Te Kopua, King Country, on Thursday through thejaccS dental discharge of bis gun as he'was getting through a wire fence. No>~fUrther .action is..-tp.be-taken .im regard of a municipal crematorium the war. The cost is'now estimated at £1800. < : .•.^he^an..regiments are .giving the Austrian Government much troubleThere are frequent mutinies', .'and executions' are said : to be. going .on. wholesale.'' ■ Some: objection 'was taken by members . of the City Council <last night to the proposed increase in taxicab fares, and the matter was referred back to committee.- 'Si' ' " ';'.'-'..'.-;' Jfajor Morrison, N.Z.S.C., who is back from France on furlough, states ' that very slight casualties are included in the lists, and help to swell the latter con- " eiderably. , - , ■ advances have been made in suTgery since the war"hegah, and the grafting of tissue and bone' is now done on a scale which was quite impossible a few months ago. : . It is explained that the boasted German victory over the Rumanians at Hermannstadt was really only the surrounding of a regiment by twenty times the number of the enemy. The City Council.has decided to ask the Tramway Company to lay a.track up the new. Jermyn Street, ''the idea being to "have the work done before paving operations axe started. "We must be prepared to continue the war for a time-which at present cannot be estimated," said the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (Sir William, Robertson),in an appeal for.more men. ■ A discussion on sanitary precautions against infantile paralysis took place at the City Council's meeting last, night, and aa a. result the whole question, was ■ referred to the Works Committee. '' The aged Austrian. Emperor is still comparatively vigorous (says the lata Rumanian Minister at Vienna). .The Minister states that the rumours about ,the Emperor's senile mfirmity ■ are false. - Wool exporters at Home are asking the British Government to take steps to prevent: a very large-proportion'of-the colonial wool clip falling into the hands of - neutral buyers during the coming season. -. j Two "thousand of the women deported from the northern towns of France will . be repatriated by the Germans after the I harvest is over. It is said that' this magnanimous act of the slave raiders is due to Spanish intervention. Join the happy throng and visit Pearson's boot stores, Karangahape Road, Auckland.—(Ad.) > • - \