NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15716, 17 September 1914, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland :

The If eh alp Patiiiotic Fund now amounts to £9123 9s sd.

One divorce case was dealt with in the Supreme Court, yesterday.

Residents of Onehunga are contributing *<• .'. fund for the relict of distress iu the toruugli.

A sum of £47.948 4s Od has now been contributed to the Auckland Citizens' Patriotic Fund.

A sum of £243 5s has been subscribed ' • the Herald Fcjjd for the relief of dis- ; r.-s at Huntlv.

Tilt; temporary municipal fish market, is <• . pi- -i.'i| f> be ready for business within ti.i' next two or three weeks.

The Court'.' decision as the result of the nquiiv into the wreck of the barque Joseph Craig at Rokianga <>u August 7 v .is given vi ,-terday.

The thirty sixth bodv entombed at 11 titit.lv by the mining disaster was rei- iveirxl yesterday. The fires in the mine are well under control.

A resident of Waipapa died suddenly on I oard the steamer Clansman yesterday v hen on her way from Ru : scll to enter tno Auckland Hospital.

A ready response has been made by citizens to the fund opened in Auckland by the Acting-Consul for Belgium for the relief of distress in that couutrv.

The questio.i of the relief of distress and other matters arising from the war were considered by the General Committee of the Auckland Patriotic Leagi.'e yesterday.

F<>r the period ended September 6 the Wa'lu Grand Junction Cold Company • rushed and treated 10,170 tons of ore. for a return of bullion valued at £20.13 bos.

The proposal to trawl for fish in the aura si Gulf was yesterday abandoned by the General Committee of the Auckland Patriotic League, in \iew of a communication revived from the Minister for Marino.

The practice of granting railway passes (•■> children to allow them to travel by train to school was reviewed by the chief inspector in a report to the Auckland F.diu at ion Board yesterday. The Prime Minister states that as far [.<■ j-.ssib'e employment will be afforded ■ > miii on the gumfiflds in need of work, ■ii.d i! (hero are no buyers for gum. the Government will advance a proportion oi its value. New Zealand a a Summer rlotliing is to be despatched to the troops in Samoa. A report on the outbreak of typhoid among the Maoris at Paetihi shows that eighteen cases were traced.

The Imperial Government has expressed lis willingness to accept the services of 200 Maoris to go to Egypt.

An elderly man named William Mackersey, a resident of Seddon. was killed through being thrown from his trap.

The restrictions on ■withdrawals from the Tost Office Savings Bank, imposed when the war broke out, will be removed after to-day.

The Prime Minister is endeavouring- to have the embargo on the export of Australian flour lifted so far as New Zealand is concerned, if not wholly, at least in regard to existing contracts.

The Government is doing its best to provide that there will be sufficient ships to carry away New Zealand produce. No serious difficulty is anticipated before the end of the present year.

The Wellington Industrial Association criticises the»proposal to import a number 'if railway engines, expressing the opinion thai local industry should be carefully considered before any orders are despatched to America.

The War:

The Pacific routes are now reported 10 ie safe.

A British snbmarine torpedoed the German cruiser Hela.

A corps on the right of tho British captured 600 prisoners and 12 guns.

Net a single casualty list has been issued in trance- since the war begun.-

Tho German Imperial Chancellor has issued a bitter tirade against England.

Steady training was continued at the Auckland jnobilisation camp yesterday.

The fate of the Crown Arince's army in Northern France still hangs in the balance.

A German general is reported to have surrendered to the allies with 14.000 men.

The late German Governor of Samoa has been brought to Auckland as a prisoner of war.

.* rm.Tican-3 in Northern Franc* on Simday last seriously impeded the German retreat.

The allies have captured whole sections of Germans, who are helpless through want of sleep.

Zeppelins dropped bombs on the Royal P: laco at Antwerp, but the inmates were no, injured.

I'Llans entered a hospital in Arras, in Northern Franco, and made all tho wounded prisoners.

It is officially announced from Berlin that IS of the German Baltic fleet were in a* (ion on Mon'W.

A Freri'h aeronaut, who flew over the lino of the German retreat, describes it a-. ,i. disorderly flight.

German newspapers state that the Kaiser superintended the attack at Nancy, where the German losses were 20,000.

Letters from Berlin show that, a startling change and disillusionment began wita the rev.ret of the Au.-trians at Lemlxrg.

Tho Russians have aefiieve-d further sue "•ns'-s in Austria. Their way is declared to lx> q".'] to Huda Pcsth and Vienna.

'the Germans we reported to occupy a Krone: position north of the. Marno and fighting is pp'-coeding along the whole line. "

llio Belgian Commission lias given further instances of Gorman atrocities a.t f/nivain, MaJines, and neighbouring villages.

Offing !■• the had i-lalo of the roads the German* are unable to move soma of their great siege guns with teams of 32 horses, and tiny have abandoned them.

The German press complains that unemployment is increasing because the French and Russian prisoners are being made to work on the raihvats and roads and in tho field*.

Sporting and Athletics:

The Afondale. .Ticker Club's spring meeting opened yesterday.

The Avr.idale Cup was decide*! yesterday and was won by King Soult.

The Wellington Rugby team beat Hawke's Bay yesterday by 49 points to