NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15554, 11 March 1914, Page 8

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland : ' Sir Samuel McCaughey denies that he is the anonymous donor of £25,000 to the funds of the Ulster movement. A match commenced at Invercargill yesterday between the Australian cricketers and a Southland team. The Mount Albert Borough Council intends to take a poll of ratepayers on the question of raising a loan of £50,000 The Tramways Company has agreed to •extend the tram service from Morningside to King George's Hall, at Mount Albert The sum of £1700 yearly is spent by the Harbour Board on the sweeping of the wharves. The board is now considering tenders for a mechanical sweeper. Thirty-three kingfiah were taken in Whangarei Harbour in three days by a party of Auckland anglers. Fino sport was afforded by a big swordfish that escaped three times. The request of the Papakura Town Board to have 150 acres of the Manukau foreshore vested in it has been declined by the Harbour Board, which offers, a smaller beach area. Dissatisfaction amongst the members of the crew of the Union Company's steamer Navua ended in the men leaving the ship in a body at Auckland yesterday. An- t other crew was obtained. A ferro-concrete structure with five landings is to be erected by the Harbour Hoard at the eastern side of the Hobson Wharf at a cost of about £1400 for launches and small craft. The demand for freezing space for mutton and beef for export from Auckland i this season has been phenomenal, and has necessitated a considerable increase in the plant and buildings of the Farmers' Freezing Company. The whole subject of Parnell waterfront alterations roading and park schemes is to be discussed by committees of the City Council and Harbour Board The latter body yesterday set up a committee to meet the committee appointed for the purpose by the council. New Zealand: Another caso of a clever forgery Vy a native is reported from Wanganni. The revenue produced by the Napier tramways for six months has exceeded all expectations.

The New Zealand School Journal was warmly praised by Earl Grey in a speech in Wellington yesterday.

Some interesting statements were made by the Prime Minister in a political address at Blenheim last night.

The Commissioner of Police is emphatically of the opinion that there is no organised white slave traffic in New Zealand.

The attendance at territorial parades on. the West Coast affords a striking re- , iutation that it is the hot-bed of antimilitarism.

Earl Grey pointed out in Wellington yesterdav that one-eighth of New Zealand's population represents dependents on the State. This, he said, is a grave national danger. . .

A member and ex-member of the Whangarei County Council were proceeded against in the Magistrate's Court yesterday for their share of the cost of entertaining the Governor and the Hon. Thos. Mackenzie.. Australia: Two cases of smallpox are reported from Helensburgh (N.S.W.). One of the two Australian submarines now on their way to Australia has put into Gibraltar with a damaged propeller blade. A gang of striking chaff-cutters at Coolamon on Monday ill-treated some non- , unionists. Three of the latter were badly injured. The Labour Federation is considering a .proposal to form a grand council of all , the unions 'which acted in concert during the New Zealand strike. A denial is given by Senator Millen , (Minister for Defence) to the statement that by retrenchment and economy the Federal Government is trying to cripple the defence system- . 3ritish Empire: Extensive radium deposits have been • found in Jamaica. Motor traffic in London during the past year was responsible for 579 deaths. The Plumage Bill, which ig supported '■ by travellers and sportsmen, has passed its second reading in the House of Commons. Mrs. Pankhnrst has been rearrested at Glasgow, after a fierce fight between the suffragettes and the police. Revolvers and bombs were used in the struggle.

A British battleship is experimenting with two guns to fight aeroplanes. The latest types of vessels are dispensing with nets, against torpedoes, and are trusting to secondary batteries.

Russian peasants at Vancouver threaten 'to march through the street* of the city without their clothes as a protest against the levying of penalties on communal property tor individual offences.

The South African Indemnity Bill has been read a third time by the House of Assembly, General Smuts emphasised that ' the banishment of the strike-leaders was ' not perpetual. The deported men. Poute- ■ ma says, will return, and if they are exeluded a boycott of South African products by British trade unionist* will follow.

Mr. Asqnith on Monday unfolded his proposals for the placating of Ulster to the House of Commons. These include the granting to Ulster of permission to take a poll as to whether or not they will he excluded from Home Rule for a period of six years.

. Foreign: Abdul Hamid. the ex-Sultan of Turkey, is seriously ill.

The value of French interests in the New Hebrides is placed at £500,000 by an unofficial estimate.

The hotel fire at St. Louis was respon siblo for the los? of 35 lives, and serious injuries to 40 others.

A vigorous protest against the repenl of lh» Panama Canal Tolls Act is being made by the Irish-Americans.

Police are guarding the State capitol owinj to a threat by thousands of unemployed that they intend to invade Washington. 6

With regard to the fate of Benton, it is stated that he was shot in the back by Genera! Villa and his aide-de-camp, when ' leaving the room where the three had been conferring.

An Austrian batta'inn is reported to have crossed the Montenegrin frontier, and to have fired on some Montenegrin barracks, killing one man and wounding several.

The last of the descendants of Prince Poterrkin, who, in the 18th century was second only to the Empress Catherine, has been found Felling tickets in a picture show at St. Petersburg.

French motor bandits were busy a few days ago. They raided a penitentiary convent near Boulogne-sur-Seine, and carried of/ three of their girl associates. In ' the pursuit that followed seven of the men ' were' arrested*