NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15717, 18 September 1914, Page 4

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: The city engineer has taken charge of GiUios Park-

Temporary repairs are to be effected to Svmonds Street.

The temporary fish market will he com plt'ted in about four weeks-

A tt.tnJ of £50.068 9s 4d lias now Wn reached by th« Auckland Patriotic Fund.

The City Council has donated £25 towards purchasing a sword of honour to It presented to General (J.xllcv.

Th« pronounced shortage of tile 1 '.able lor beet' is referred to by 'the UruMii's Darga\illo correspondent.

lhe Auckland Charitable Aid Commit 1(. complains thai wifcdesertim is hecomi: ..' .1 n;or<> and more common rrinn l .

A v, un; mimed woman named Mrs. W All-in -a .<- ha<i a naricw pt, apo ,->ni t« fis drowned in the hnrboui last night.

A tender at, £246 has Wen accepted for t.i" work ..t altering and renovating the reference department of the Public 1. bran.

The An.klnnd detachment of the expedi t ■ ■narv ~, ,■ will bo inspected bv the Mm i*vi !,.i 1). !'..ih-p 'Hon. J. AlJeii; on Saturday mi ■ruing

Four parent.* were fined in ihe Police T-riiL vo.-tpiday for failure to see that th-ir children went regularly to oompul- ' r v continuation clasps at Dvonpon.

A _tn"-piir.' of representative men. bold »' W,-!;in.-;,„i last night, d.vidpd to .-slab- '-*■> ■' nal 0n,..] fund to relieve the ib pre.lnns of thaw kdlod ill the Hlilitlv

OriP in-.:,- body was recovered from Itilpli- mine, Iluntly, ye.Mciday. Four tr "'" ,-up still unaccounted for. 'it is f . x . p-u-.l that, work will be. resumed in the I'.Mevd'-d mine in a day ~r two and in Ralph's mine in about a fortnight.

A further cheque, f,-. r £2000 ivm the TlriMir. Patriotic Frvn was yert*rd;iv p.j'.l nil., the Auckland Patriotic Fund', makinc_a total of £9000 from the fund t--. date II'" pi and total teoeiv«>d bv the llFn.M.ti lund now .Manas ct £9143 10--11.1 New Zealand: Severn! 'lovse f;-rt.-.ric- in Southland h.ive sold tlvir outputs at 6Jd {..>.!>.

George Thomas Goldsmith, of Napier, d'.'d under .in antithetic in Wellington Hospital yc«tordav.

A (.en-year old boy, the ,«ori of Mr. John J-llvman. of Ashhurst. v.a« killed by being ur.iggr.l rt [;<-r a bow*.

A High School Hot named M. Perr-an, lot a lei; through jailing under a tram in Christ, mm- yesterday.

Strangles hag broken out in th- h..rse ? • t tip PalmerMon Nor*;! ramp. Precautionary measures arc being taken.

The Maoris of th- Girb&rue distr..-t.* have raised £890 for the v-.ir fund Mid held a demonstration yesterday to increase tiie sum. . v violent assault was made on a Chinaman in Courtney Place, Wellington, yesterday, br a man who said Hie. Chinaman had deprived him of his work. Arrangements have been made for the holding of a number of native meetings Turtli of Auckland for the mirpose of compiling a record of Maori (oik love. General: The whole of the silver has been saved from the wreck of the Empress of T■■••l.i nd. As 3. result, of a train being derailed lietween San Francisco and St. Louis 10 people were killed. General Beyers has resigned the Com-Tnandajit-OneralFhip of the South African I. niou Defence Forces.

General Delarev, -while motoring neat •Johannesburg, was shot dead bv a" policeman who x>a» searching for a can? of desperadoes.

The War: British soldiers are dividing their rations ■with refugees.

The Germans lost heavily in the recent figlning in XyassaJar.d.

It. is estimated that the German forces in Prussia number 800.000.

It is stated that 1500 German prisoners have arrived in Rtismn Poland.

It is stated that the Kaiser is coin;; to lead ilia army against, the Russians.

Prinre Joachim, (he Kaiser's son. who* -as wounded in Belgium, has returned to Berlin.

hewer refugees are arriving in England, and confidence ib being restored in Northern France.

Russia, may abandon her campaign in . «V Prtißsii and prosecute a more advantigeous pltti, elsewhere,

v. ', t i , * that ' ho Austrian* have had 250.000 men killed and mounded, and 100,000 taken prisoners.

legislation has been passed empowering the Indian Government to defray the cost of despatching troops to Enrope.

The Grown Prince's effort to retire between the Fore.it of Arponne and th«-; Jtiver Mouse ha« apparently -'ci).

TTig War Office has rwoeptfd tin- offer of tho services of tli* Australian Mounted C udcta' contingent now in England.

'I he. South African Government, has no. r'.d.-d to occupy certain parts of German South-west, Afnca lor strategical reasons.

The Russians have extricated their f-.nes in EasUrn Prussia, and are adopting the defensive, awaiting reinforcements.

Ad\i from An'weip Mate that the Germans slaujflitffted 182 civilian.- at, So;gnu-s because i ifl.'A w«>re found in some hornet-.

The indemnity demanded by Henna.!!* fri.m tin- towns occupied in Belgium and Iran.-*' ablegate to nearly £29,000.000 (■terlirig,

Tim fonr prisoner.- nf u-,ir, brought, from P.inioa. ami who arriveH in Auckland vMcnliv. have been interred at Mottiilii ] viand.

'Hi" I'r-mioi ■•' \".-v South Wale* ha? »i:i:niiiicf<i th.it, tip Government will not ■ irijul it* HritMi nnnortitaunp on account U th.. v:,r

lii, t Mdi-: -General \';c! Findlav. coin mand'-r ~f tin. Ij m ■!) Aiiiiieiv in'the ex-[-•lilmiiarv toico y:..., killed ill ho tightii,.- ~t W-.\.

There- is general depression in the it; 1 radii of the lionet inn. t.. war con■'it.ons. and th.- I.cet that present prices ■ii'' not piofitablc ha.- caused many mills to ci".«.e down.

News brought by the Tallin' yesterdnv states (hat the (Herman cargo .steamer Walknri', which w.i.i recently captured at Makatea. Island by the French gunboat Zidce, and convoyed to Papeete, is fitill detained .it the i<J/md port.

The formation of a Maori contingent for r'ri ico abroad will, the district health officer stated yesterday, be attended by crave risks of an epidemic of typhoid fever, as the disease has been rife in tjie n.itire tbfo wip.tar e

n , Ball. Buy. Bunks- . £b. a. £a. a. National 5 5 0 — New Zealand — 14 10 0 Insurance— New Zealand — 5 7 6 „ South British 4 0 0 3 17 6 Coal Northern Coal ... 0 8 6 — Taupiri 110 — Waipa. Collieries ... 1 0 0 0 18 6 Gas Auckland — 16 6 Pietiiren, etc. Orand 0 14 6 (•lobe . ... _. 15 0 Haj-wnrd'j 10 0 — Miscellaneous— Auckland Trams .'ord i — 116 Auckland Trams (prof.) — 10 0 Union Stonnis 10rd.).. ISO 10 9 Devonport Ferry .. 113 0 — Brokeiajre, i per cent. COE & CO.. Smecton-s Bldjs.. Auckland.