NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15558, 16 March 1914, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland : Heavy vain at Hamilton provided a Welcome change in the weather yesterday. A fine of £60 was imposed on a man eonvii i.'.l of sly grog-selling at Taumarunui in. Friday. The local bodies of Gisborne desire a Government engineer to report upon the ehViemy ot the town's bowerage scheme. A Departmental inquiry will be made today con "ruing the driving of the express train which left for Wellington last Monday evening. The executive of the new Union of Hotel Employees has resigned, and has bo'ii replaced" by men who arc in direct sympathy with the old anion. A cowardly attack was made on a waterside worker named Nicholas Saunders on Friday evening. It arose from the ,11 feeling created by the recent strike. The impressions of a business man p..merl (lining an extensive t-.Jr through Liberia, Manchuria, and China were p\ei>. in an interview yesterday by -Mr. Jb!. H. Patterson. The Frankton Borough Council has derided to allow Mrs. Field, of Nelson, free «.<-> of the Town Hall to enable her to attempt to prove her statements concilium;; Frankton and the white slave traffic. The relation of the dust nuisance to the question of expenditure on public parks was di." ussed by the Mayor on SaturdayHe explained that measures are being pursued with the object of alleviating the former, and contended that the latter is always justified. New Zealand: The (••- ond of the youthful escapees from the Timaru gaol was captured on Saturday. Rurglars broke into an ironmongery shop in Wanganui on Friday night and stole £15. A carpenters' award, filed at Wellington on Saturday, is based on the Dunedin award. A boy on the training-ship Amokura attempted to desert at Port Chalmers by swimming ashore on Saturday. A goou flight was made by Mr. Scotland in his Caudron biplane at Christchurch on Saturday afternoon. An American trade commission, representing the National Association of Manufacturers of the United States, arrived in Auckland yesterday by the Riverina from Sydney, and will spend a month in the Dominion, investigating the possibilities for developing trade between New Zealand and America. Australia : Three cases of smallpox are reported in the Newcastle district. The next conference of the Federated Licensed Victuallers will be held at Wellington in 1915. The two' new Australian submarines have arrived at Malta after a good passage from Gibraltar. Sir Robert Best predicts a double dissolution shortly and the return of the Liberals with a slightly increased majority. Fourteen people were killed and 30 injured in a New South Wales railway collisiot: on Friday night. The disaster, which is one of the most serious that lias ever occurred in the State, is attributed to mist and rain obscuring the signals. British Empire:. An offer of £800,000 has been made by an American millionaire for part of the Wallace art collection. A note attached to the Naval Estimates explains that the Philomel wi'il shortly be transferred to New Zealand. The South African Senate has rejected an amendment to delete the banishment clause from the Indemnity Bill. A fortnight's notice has been given to the coalowneTS by 170,000 Yorkshire miners, owing to a dispute regarding the chairmanships of the Minimum Wage and Conciliation Boards. A son of the late Field -Marshal Sir George White headed a procession of the Dublin unemployed on Friday through the streets of the Irish capital. In an affray with the police he was injured and arrested. A severe rebuke has been administered by Mr. Redmond to the 19 Nationalists whose absence from the House of Commons on Thursday nearly enabled the Opposition to beat the Government on a division. Mrs. Pankhurst has again been released from prison. A suffragette meeting in Belfast on Friday was broken up by the crowd, which resented & statement that war wou'd be proclaimed by the women on Sir E. Carson. Foreign: One of Japan's leading men has been arrested in connection with the navy scandals. Grave disorder is prevalent in some parts of Albania, and attacks on Christians arc common. Tho Carnegie endowment for international peace has spent £6000 in promoting the repeal of the Panama Canal Tolls Act. The Anstro-German agitation against ■Russia still continues, though M. Sazonoff maintain."* there is no ground for the present excitement. In a recent engagement between an Italian column and Arabs in the Libyan desert. Hie Italians sustained 145 casualtics and the natives 263. A fire on the waterfront at Portland (Oregon) burned down six blocks and destroyed two steamers. In another fire in C •niKcticut, three Italians lost their lives. A Mexican general was murdered last v.'fk by his men. Some officers, who escaped, at once mobilised a strong force, :iml after a pitched battle with the mutineers, routed them. All the prisoners wire executed. Sporting and Athletics: The yacht Rawene won the Mackav Cur outright on Saturday. Miss Livonia won the Ohinemuri Cup or Sat Hay. Jolie Fille being second. U'aitemata (Auckland) won the senioi sculls at the Wellington Regatta on Satur day. The return cricket match between Can teihury and tho Australian touring tear/ was drawn. Eden and Epsom defeated West End ir the semi-finals of the Dunlop Tennu Shield competition on Saturday. Three school boys, Lock, Wholan, ant Anderson, scored centuries in the public schools cricket matches on Saturday. Scoring was high in the senior cricket championship on Saturday, and tw< players, E. Horspool and Airey, scorn centuries. Three favourites won at the Ohineraur Jockey Club's meeting on Saturday, whil< at, the Napier Park meeting four favour ilea prevailed.