NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15711, 11 September 1914, Page 4

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland

Tim criminal cessions of the Supremo Coon, wore continued yesterday.

The total amount subscribed to the "Hkjiald Pai&iotio Fund to date is £8765 Oa 4d.

It is expected that the new Hobscm Street bat ha will be ready for opening lit it month.

A young man was arrested yesterday on. a ohargo ol attempting to murder his Uther-iu-law. The final meeting of the executive of tin) Auckland Exiuoition was held yes-"w-'xday tor noon. Iho total sum paid into and promised to '.ho Auckland 'Jitwens' Patriotic Fund is cuvv £)4t>,44t> 8s 7d. A tender has been accepted by the Public Worts. Department lor tho erection of a new putt ctiico at tluntly. The first public waiting-room for women to be erected in Auckland is about to 00 placed m Upper H ynaiiam Street. Insurance rates 111 tho Parnell district arc likely to be reduced very snortiy to the samo basis at ttiusc obtaining in the 0.-.ty. A site dose to tiiy waterfront has boon selected lnr the temporary hsh market by the Works Committee oi the Uity Count 11. An official inquiry into the proposal to make a new outlet trom the city via Jermjn Street is to be conducted by Mr. C. C. Kettle, fc'.-M. A stableman, while exercising a horse •M. College Hill, was knocked down by a pasting uaincjr and sustained a broken leg and injuries to his head. A very resting lecture on " Explosions" was delivered last evening by .Prolessor £)ixon, 0110 ot tho scientists who attended me recent congress in Australia. Several amendments to the Auckland Co-operative Terminating Building Society's rules were, decided upon at an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders. Knives were apparently drawn during ■: quarrel by sonic of the sailors on board tho French Marque Chateau D'l last evening and as a result one sailor was stabbed in the l>ack and another received a gash across tho hard. No arrests have yet been made. Hew Zealand: A return regarding the .Maori epidemic of last year was presented to Parliament last nigtut. The value of the production of gold by dredges In New Zealand during 1913 amounted to £195,848. The export of kauri gum during 1913 was the highest, in point of tonnage and value, for the past seveu years. The industrial depression due to the war is reported to have seriously affected the furniture trade in Ohriatchurch. The EanfurJy Shield, the trophy of Rugby, has been won by Wellington, which beat Taranaki by 12 points to 6. Temporary appointments in connection with tho territorial forces, during the absence of the expeditionary force, are gazetted. The conference which was to have considered the adoption of a stamp for New Zealand-made goods has been indefinitely postponed. Practically all the flaxmills outside the Wellington and Manawatu districts are closed, and in that area not all the milk are running. Tho mining industry of the Dominion, though seriously affected by the big strike of last, yen, has arrived at a somewhat settled condition. While superintending the erection of a new gasometer at Wanganui a man named Mark Svmonds fell a distance of 24ft and received injuries from which he is not likely to recover. The date of the general elections will be considered by a caucus of the Government Party this morning, and the Government's decision will probably be announced next Tuesday evening. A Bill amending the Mortgages Extension Act passed last month was introduced into tho House of Representatives last evening, and passed through all it« stages. The War: The Austrian Government has begun to fortify Vienna. It ia reported that the German mobilisation order was printed in 1912. Iho training of the Canadian expeditionary forces is practically completed. The Germans claim that they now have guns that are able to bombard Dover from Ca'aoa. Torrential rains and floods interfered with the Japanese land operations at Kiau-Chau, General training in all sections was nndertaken at the Auckland concentration camp yesterday. A British gunboat captured a trawler, purporting to belong to Grimsbv, with 200 mines aboard. Tho Indian contingents number 70,000 and the first of them are due to arrive in London this week. Sinoe the declaration of war 8500 perform have been arrested as spies in Britain, but only 90 detained. Two German army corps have been repulsed from the Meaux district after two days' fighting with heavy losses. It is reported that many German offi>t:rs at Kiau-Chan are of tHo opinion that rmftanoe to the Japanese forces is futile. It is reported that Krupps are working day and night making guns; alfo that 10 new Zeppelins are ready for Bervice. General Joffre, the Commander-in-Chief of the French Army, has thanked Britain for tho valuable support given by her army. Two New Zealanders, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. King, of Napier, who were touring from Vladivostock to Europe, are detained iii Berlin. At a meeting of the Montreal Patriotic 'Association £35,000 was raised. Several ■wealthy residents have contributed £60,000 to equip a battery. Owing to tho war, it is stated that tho British Government contemplates delaying the establishment of the Irish Parliament, probably until 1916. The Chancellor of tho Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd George, states that Britain must husband her resources, for money is £<»i.ng to count in the war. Tho right wing of the German Army lias been considerably battered during the last few dayii and is now falling back with the British fast on its flank. The New Zealand Defence Department has announced that married British reservists accompanying the expeditionary •forco will be paid at tho rate of 4s per dayThe Secretary of State, In a message to His Excellency the Governor, says that <Jie navy will "be increased within the next 12 months by 45 new ships, and the army ja Europe will bo continually reinforced.