NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15649, 1 July 1914, Page 8

NEWS SUMMARY.

' 'AucKland; The fund for the senior cadets drill ball ao% totals £582 17s 6d. A bn-glar visited a boardinghouse in Symonda Street yesterday morning. There were 154 marriages, 299 births, and 113 deaths in Auckland last month. A full agreement was reached yesterday in. the Auckland biograph operators' dispute. The restrictions placed upon Maoris in regard to travelling nave been removed a. from to-day. During the past six months the people leavka the Port of Auckland by sea have wraeded tho arrivals by 972. The cold returns for the various mines in ue Auckland Province during Juno represent a votal of £75,858 6s U. Tfc* Marama, from Vancouver, landed her mails a day ahead of contract time, by reaching port yesterday morning. A poll will be taken on Tuesday for authority to raise a loan of £29,500 for Works in the borough of Mount Albert. 0 Mr. J. Payne, M.P., who addressed bin constituents in Grey Lynn last night, was subjected to a good" deal of interruption. Tiio Gum Lands Commission held its final sitting yesterday when the report of the commission was received and adopted. Residents of Mount Albert met last evening: for the purpose of making a pjbhc presentation to Mr. M. J- Coyle, late Mayor of tho borough. The union of Grey Lynn with the city will begin to-day. Proposals to raise a loan of £100,000 for expenditure in the district are to be prepared without delay. Inquiries "will be conducted to-day regarding the grounding of the barqu« Joseph Craig on Rough Rock, and the sinking of the scow Pahiki by the steamer Clansman. Complaint that th"re was a lack cf genuine competition i the tenders submitted to the Harbour Board, was made by a member at tho board's meeting yesterday. - Hew Zealand: The prospects of reflating tho stranded steamer Kauri are considered to be bright. The sum of £16,728 was found in letters winch reached the dead letter office during tho year. On the year's 'vorking the receipts of the Post and Telegraph Department exceeded expenditure »>y £96,606. A return presented to Parliament shows that 798 persons own landed estates over £20,000 and up to £100,000 id value. During the year the Post and Telegraph Department erected miles of polo telephone line and 54*899 miles of wire. The indications are for a falling barometer everywhere. The weather is likely to be dull, and rain will probably follow. Two motor-cyclists collided' at Otaio, near Timaru." One sustained a broken ankle, but the other rode off without a word. A ' railway shunter at Wellington was knocked down by a truck and killed, while another at Invercargill was run over, his " leg. being severed, , < >■ Details of the new steamer contract between New Zealand and America are given, .in the annual report of the Post and Telegraph Department. A vote of' no confidence in the Government was moved .by Sir Joseph Wart,' Leader .of the Opposition, during the , Addresß-in-Reply debate yesterday. Australia: ' Tib Ventura reports that the barque Dalgonar, abandoned last year in the Pacific, is still afloat. The inquiry into the wharf fire at Darling > Harbour, Sydney, .ha i resulted in tin < open verdict being returned. The Federal. Premier (Mr. Joseph Cook) admitted on Monday thai* he believed the American Meat Trust was operating in the country. i ■ > An English zoologist, Professor Douglas liaurie, has arrived in Melbourne en route for Norfolk Island, where he intends prosecuting research work, touching the prehistoric Pacific continent.

British Empire: ; The case for the Hindoos excluded from British Columbia has begun before the '.Court of Appeal. The British Insurance Act is declared : by medical men to be killing individuality among doctors. '. A proposal is in hand to build a church : fa London to mark the centenary of peace between Britain and Amer.cn. ; ; The liner California, from New York '" \-. -to'. Glasgow, has run ashore on the v'.rast * .of Ireland. The passengers all landed in safety. ,: * '•.According'to.a statement published in "London, : the deported South African labour leaders will be permitted to return • unhindered. : It is alleged that a movement is on loot in London to discourage sectional agreements in connection with the building trade crisis. Mr. Lloyd George ' has announced changes in the British Finance Bill to obviate objections which had been made to some of its provisions. A ceremony of investiture was held at -~j>t>. James's Palace on Monday, when the King knighted Sir Douglas Mawson and .;decorated a number of seamen for gal- ' { lantry. ' v A statement has been made by Sir Edward Grey, BritUh Minister for Foreign Affairs, paying a tribute to the action of . President Wilson over the Panama Qahal toils question. Foreign: Complaints are made in Persia of Buscar, aggressions on the northern frontier. Apprehension exists in America lest the Mexican mediation proceedings should .., fail. Disorder has broken our, in Pittsburg • • .among tho Westinghouse employees who "are on.strike. The recent earthquake in Sumatra was followed bj i cloudburst which caused incalculable <; image. Latest reports show that the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and the Duchess of Hohenhurg bled to death as the result of the bullet wounds they received. . Sporting and Athletic?) The French light-weigh 1 , boxer, I > Deux, heat tho Englishman Walker ; n , London after five rounds. A junior League football match played at Ngaruawahia on Saturday resohed itself info a free fight. and the referee ordered loth teams off the field. • The consensus of opinion regarding the . Johnson-Moran boxing match is that the jatter. never had a chance., and that Johnson is past his best form. '■• .'."•■ The All-England tennis championship* ;. .ccntmnfl. Parke (Britain) has been / beaten by Froitzheim (Germany), while i/L 5 .Wilding continues to win his games, j