NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15550, 6 March 1914, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland : 1 The attendance at the Exhibition yesterday was 2014. | An officer of the Valuation Department is to be stationed at Whangarei. The Whangarei dredge has on two occasions recently sank in deep water. Plans for public baths for Grey Lynn have been prepared. These provide (or a swimming pool 160 ft by 60ft. The rvime Miniiler has announced that the purchase of the Or.ikei block of land, 600 acre?, is practically completed. A juryman at Hamilton akeel to be ! excused from attendance because a moth : had go; into his head through his car. The Supreme Court pat at Hamilton yefterday. The grand jury adopted a, resolution regretting the prevalence of sexual (rime. Hour*, for bathers and charges at the r,-'u- Partuell baths were fixed by thelitv Council last evening. The baths are to be opened tomorrow. A pi tition is being circulated in Grey Lynn, for presentation to the Governor, asking that the district be amalgamated with .he City of Auckland. The formation of footpaths, kerbs, and channels, in 34 streets, to cost £28.850 in all, was decided upon at last night's meeting of the City Council. The company which proposes to revolu- • tionise the gum-digging industry by cleaning gum with machines has held its first ■ general meeting at Dargaville. Regarding as a vote of censure reoent resolutions bv meetings of the Auckland Tramways Union the Management Committee of the union has resigned in a body. A propeller blade was lost br the tramp n'eanit-r Terrier when bound from Carral (South America) to Newcastle- The vessel put into Auckland yesterday for re-j-Jirs. A request that he should accept nomination for the fourth term as Mayor of the city was made to Mr. C. J. Parr -tit evening by a deputation comprising 16 members of the City Council. Mr. Parr said he had intended to retire, but would reconsider the matter and announce his decision next week. The desirability of making an effort to increase the membership of children was discussed at the annual meeting of the Auckland branch of the Victoria League last night, as was also a suggestion that the, various branches should hold an annual conference. Both subjects were sent on to the council of the branch to , deal with. New Zealand: The price of flour hag been raised by 10s per ton. It i* reported that two huias have been cs-E'ii near Wanganui. The aviator, Mr. Scotland, propose* to fly to-day from Timara to Christchurch. A new monthly steamer service between Hull and New Zealand has been arranged. The Minister for Education hopes to considerably improve the positions of school teachers shortly. A Wellington public school teacher yesterday spoke his mind very freely concerning what he termed the "pinpricks" of the eerrice. Australia: Queensland intends to be represented at the Panama Exposition. An Auckland woman has died from poison in Sydney Hospital. A sum of £10,000 is still required in connection with the Mawson expedition to the Antarctic. The Australasian women's conference has entered a potest against the prevailing fashion of indecorous attire. The Federal Government is to be approached with a view to the amendment of the marriage law to prevent the marriage of those physically unfit for parenthood. Many volunteers are said to have offered their Eerviceii in connection with' the butchers' strike in Sydney. It is also claimed that 5000 farmers and their sons are ready to come from the country if needed. All the big shops were open yesterday, and there was a Tush for meat. British Empire : The British Government has granted £10,000 for the Shackleton expedition to the Antarctic. Owing to the deadlock in the London building trade, the men have so far lost £200,000 in wages. Pourparlers have been opened between Britain and France towards a conference to discuss details regarding the New Hebrides control. At the London wool sales on Wednesday, the market was very animated, and c.roßsbreds showed a 10 per cent, advance over the last sales. There are indications that Canada is about to make efforts to stem the tide of unsuitable immigrants, and to concentrate her energies on obtaining farmers and domestics. A married couple, the husband being stated to be an agent of the German Government, has been remanded on a charge of having obtained and attempted to communicate certain British naval secrete, calculated to be of use to an enemy. Foreign: German officers will reorganise the forces of Albania. A French youth has been sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for tbe murder of seven people at a village near Nantes. Agricultural statistics for 1912 show that the expansion of the world's wheat p< r eage in 1910-1911 received a severe cl eck iii 1912. a startling decline being re ported from all over the world. With reference to the arrest of the Rev. .7. Bnwi-kill in Portuguese Lower Guinea, the Portuguese officials explain that Mr. iwskill was acting as the leader of the disaffected natives. This, however, is denied by the Baptist Missionary Society. Sports and Athletics : The American athletes registered three new records at a Masterton sports gathering yesterday. At TrenthMii yesterday, President Masefield, of the Sounds Club, won the King's Belt, awarded to champion riflemen of the Dominion. Two New Zealand swimming records were broken at the Albert Street Baths last evening by the Australians, Harold Hard wick and Miss Fanny Durack. The carnival v.as the most successful held in Auckland fur many years.