NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15645, 26 June 1914, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

|| Auckland: r ■ £•'•*' V " ' ; .' ' : ' ',v iHt;?5 ' Business has been quiet in Auckland PP-'during the week, as is usual at this. time oi car ' • 9 fof: • Tho annual meeting of the Ross GoldJgg.-, fields Reconstructed, Limited, was held yesterday. A ballot for over 2000 acres of Crown fj' lands took -place at the Government ||f - Buildings yesterday. Steps aro to be taken by the City Council to have certain items of unauthorised f expenditure validated. The Board of Governors of the Auckland Grammar School had a credit balance on June 24 of £6470 19s lid. lf Fish merchants met, Professor Princo yesterday and discussed with him various questions relating to their business. The City Council intends to ascertain whether its proposals for a contribution of £500 towards the cost of a senior cadet drill-hall in the Domain are legal. The employers' counter-proposals in the industrial dispute with biograph operators in the Auckland picture theatres vary considerably from the workers' demands. ~ A meeting of those interested in the popularising of New Zoaland-made goods decided last night to ask the Industrial Association to convene a conference of all Auckland bodies affected. The scow Pahiki, which was sunk in the harbour in a collision with th© steamer Clansman on Wednesday morning, was successfully raised and beached at Stanley Bay yesterday by means of the- Harbour Beard's floating crane. ; A Maori chief from Te Kuiti gave an address at the congress of the New Zealand Alliance in Wellington last night, in ' which ho urged the members to oppose the . annulling of the King Country liquor rejr strictions. K An action for £1500 damages in connec--1 r tion with the death, through an accident, £• of a waterside worker is being heard at the £: : Gisborne Supreme Court. Tne legal point has been raised as to a liability when such an accident is caused by the negligence of a fellow-worker. Si The new buildings which are being | > erected at Avondalc Mental Hospital will accommodate 170 parents. In addition, s building is being erected at Tokanui, io the King Country. When all are comttp pleted the Departing will be able to carry out a satisfactory Classification scheme. SiS Hew Zealand: Jjjp&J-; •- ■: -■ A conference of managers of the various tiic farmers' co-operative associations of New Zealand, held/in' Christchurch, adopted a ii::, scheme of federation. "I, ' Cold and unsettled weather An many HW* > park of the country.is predicted. Strong it southerly winds may be expected. ' The fourth and last session/ of-the present |||t': Parliament was opened yesterday, ; when the Speech from the Throne was delivered. I", The National Bank of New Zealand pro.y"poses to pay a dividend of 6 percent, for tie half-year, besides a - bonus of 1 per fills,-, cent-., making a total of. 13 per cent, for the year.• ; '- ' ElSt/*, The Prime Minister stated last night '<K '' /that the Government might possibly bring Ife*' down a Bill enabling haroour boards at th& '$'■/. principal ports-" to ■ establish permanent ijil'' staffs of wharf labourers. I ':y-: v J Exceedingly * rough weather • was experife§|§f; enced in Cook Strait on Wednesday night. The ferry steamer Wahine reached pyttelton three bonis late, and the small steamer '■>:> ? Waihi *•"' dragged her <• anchors : and was llttlfc' stranded in AVellington Harbour. Wfrf -'4-,' " -s.-'-' '' The Govenior's speech, delivered at the . . opening of Parliament yesterday, indicates : | - 4 that the following , important subjects will ■' la dealt with during : 7 ; the session Bible in Schools • Referendum; Bill, a Bill to substitute a 56 per cint.-majority ■ for vj' the present' 60" per » cent. *• majority on national prohibition, an Education Bill, a litfft fi'Jl to provide for a fair aod businesslike llppl >fportionment'os .public works, grants to. a. car bodies, a Bill !to enable the Public Wf: Avorks Department to improve the roading i. . in the back blocks, a scheme of works for Iff}' X, Ik:; better and safer working of the raill ' proposes -for the reduction of the th Vjosfc of Hiring, ■ and a suggestion for State %/A . ,S1 assistance to the' Society for the Health of Women and Children. A large number of . . minor measures are also to be brought ;§||®fefcefore Parliament. -~ v • *> fifef. ■(. ' ' ' -..vT" ■' - ■ Australia: ' it-',,' t I"he final session, of the New South i» ,W.Wales Parliament was opened oi Wcdries--4 day. v ; . ( An ■ "official report .testifies to the '"I"' efficacy of vaccination in stemming the ' smallpox outbreak in Sydney. ' Fuller reports of the Papuan trouble fir*: - show the casualties _ were occasioned by .native police firing without orders. §f§s The Governor-General has made, a state--$0: ment to the. Senate covering his refusal *10 i . to produce the correspondence dealing ||p,with the double dissolution. |v British Empire: The second reading of the Home Rule Amending Bill will be moved in the House •% • of Lords on July I.' , .' Litigation regarding dealings in Amerir fe# can Marconi shares has been resumed in the British Court of Chancery.' |f r >: 'A strong' protest against any yielding | K over the Indian immigration question has been made by the citizens of Vancouver. i! 2 #* The shareholders of the Peninsular and §i- Oriental Shipping Company have approved of the amalgamation with the British India line. Colonial visitors to London are b?.i)jg ! r 7' compelled to wait at least a month to view the art galleries, in consequence of ;f*'. precautions against militant suffragettes. fe * "Alexandra Day*" was celebrated in If;'' London on Wednesday. Among the thou- '/" . sands selling flowers in the streets for charity were ono hundred New Zealandera. P-'' That Australasian shipping legislation frf,.' tcrdr, to restrid- competition was: the view %i expressed by -Norman Hill, a British tipcrt, befor" the Dominions commission. ; Foreign: h , The abdication of King Peter of Servia !• is reported from Belgrade. jf, ' The Russian Duma has adopted important proposals for strengthening the coun'o&:j - try's defence forces. Z:| The tornado which swept over four $o.'-' American States resulted in several deaths p>v'_ , and much damage to property. SflyK The fist protocol in connection with ISIS 1 . tie Mexican mediation proceedings has . been signed at Niagara Falls. ■' • The sale of two American battleships to j: V Greece has been approved by the United •jj: ; States House of Representatives. ■ '' . £|pV- A plot to assassinate the President of the Republic of Ecuador has been discovered and the leaders arrested. . ' France and Germany are said to have threatened to seize the Haytian Custom's;?;,.- houses unless. the Republic meets her outstanding financial obligations. ' ; The French Minister in charge, of the UWm Postal Department says he is prepared to I call out. the military, if necessary, to protect f commerce : :. from the effects of the «Wk*' V 5

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