NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15663, 17 July 1914, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland; The freezing industry in the province is steadily expanding. While dehorning cattle at Tangiteroria a man was seriously gored by one of the animals. The Takapuna Borough Council has seleoted a site for the erection of Council Chambers. No improvement has been shown in the tone of general business since the beginning of the week. Tho Auckland representative hockey team defeated Manawatu at Remuera yesterday, by 3 goals to 2.

Good progress is being made with the erection of the new buildings for the Auckland Grammar School, at Mount Eden.

Reminiscences of the Klondykc gold rush wert J relat«l by Mr. W. A. Beddoe, Trado Commissioner for Canada, in a lecture last night.

The taking of evidence beforo the commission which is inquiring into the proposal that Remuera should join tho city col eluded last night. \

The promoters of the scheme for the construction of a railway line from Kawhia to the Main Trunk are showing considerable energy in advancing it.

The decision of the nautical inquiry which was held to investigate the cause of the collision between the scow Pahiki and tho steamer Clansman was given yesterday.

The work of compiling the new electoral rolls is being satisfactorily performed by Post Office officials, but several defects in'the new system arc being discovered.

New Zealand: The New Zealand Racing Conference opened in Wellington yesterday.

Tho Municipal Conference has affirmed the principle of taxing motor vehicles.

The annual conference of the Political Reform League opened at Wellington yesterday.

The steamer Kauri, which was stranded at Westport, has sailed for Port Chalmers, where she; will be docked.

A continuance of the showery and changeable weather experienced oi late is predicted in the weather forecast.

Tho Prime Minister considers that the division in the House upon the Licencing Amendment Bill will ho very close.

Tho total signatures on petitions presented to Parliament, protesting against tho Biblo in Schools' Referendum Bill is 50,000.

Tie New Zealand racing conference passed a rule yesterday by which owners of .horses are forbidden to bet with bookmaker?.

A motor-car ran over an embankment, 50ft high, north of Wanganui. It landed on a fence but did not overturn, and the , occupants escaped injury.

Two New Zealand officers head the list of thqse who passed the examination open to the colonial forces, for commissions in the Imperial Army. Lieutenant E. »H. Taylor is first on the list.

A well-known Swiss guide, Conrad Ksin, who i 6 chief of the staff of the Canadian Alpine Club, has been, engaged by the Tourist Department for the coming season .'. at Mount . ~.-'.-... •..-

A deputation, representing the hog.and barley growers '. of the Dominion, interviewed ' the- Prime Minister yesterday, and urged that the existing majority in connection with tho licensing question should not be reduced. Australia:. The South Australian Parliament was opened • yesterday. ' The Federal Premier, Mr. Joseph Cook, has outlined a comprehensive development scheme for Papua. 'A start was made yesterday upon the first aeroplane mail service flight between .\lelbourne and Sydney. Tho Melbourne Harbour Trust has approved a scheme for building four docks, at a cost of £6,000,000. The' Victorian Legislative Assembly has negatived a proposal that all future Governors should bo -. appointed from .among local residents. Medical evidence given at the inquest on the girl McAllister, found shot in a station homestead, near Yass, ehowed that tho wounds could not have been selfinflicted. -' , British Empire: The British Wesleyan Conference has opened in Leeds. .; The Plural Voting Bill ha« twice b/en rejected by the House of Lords. Two suffragettes have been convicted of assaulting Mr. McKinnon Wood, Secretary for Scotland, with a horsewhip. A New Zealander has been chosen by Sir Ernest Shaekleton to navigate his vessel in the forthcoming Antarctic expedition. j

An inquiry has been ordered by the British Board of Trade into the conditions under which sailors live on . merchant vessels. The First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. Winston Churchill, has officially denied that the 1909 naval agreement has been dropped. The chief Liberal Whip has issued a circular to his party, urging the members to rally round the Premier in tho present political crisis in Britain. Foreign: ' Two men have been incinerated in a boiler of blazing tar in Paris. The Russian forest fires continue to rage, 600 houses having been burned. The resignation of President Huerta from the Mexican presidency is announced. A.. movement has begun in New York against the building of abnormally tall buildings. A party of four tourists and a guide baa been found dead on a glacier in the Austrian Tyrol. A German woman has been arrested at Toulon by the French police on suspicion of espionage. The ruler of Albania has summoned his Ministers and appealed to them for assistance in settling the country. The necessary funds have been raised for a Swedish Antarctic expedition, which is- to leave .in the autumn of 1915. A colonel of the Foreign _ Legion in Algiers has been found dead with his wife and children, a note stating that he had shot theru in their sleep. What is described as an amazing mixture of old and and modern weapons is being used in Albania, including old Venetion cannon firing stone projectiles.

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