NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15746, 22 October 1914, Page 4

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: The Herald Patriotic Fund now totals £9694 fas lid, Tho Anglican Diocesan Synod concluded its sittings last night. Two bankruptcies were yesterday notified at the office of the official assignee. The fund opened by tho Herald tor the relief of distress at Huntly now amounts to £1191 5s 9(1. Tho Royal Naval and Royal Marin© Association celebrated Trafalgar Day by a dinner at tho Strand Cafe last, night. Tho Patriotic League has decided to send Christmas hampers to tho Auckland members of the contingent now serving at Samoa. A discussion of the no-license question took place at the Anglican Synod yesterday. No resolution was carried in regard to tho subject. Tho sum of £54 10s 6d was subscribed yesterday to the Herald Belgian relief hind, making the total amount received to date £171 14s. Owing to the war delaying material at Antwerp, the installation of automatic telephones at the North Shove has been indefinitely delayed. The price of ilour in Auckland was raised yesterday to £12 15s per ton, an advance of 10#. Ihe price of bread will bo fixed within a day or two. A statement about the use of tho rifle range at Penrose by mem iters of the Akarana Rifle Club was made in Parliament yesterday by the Minister for Defence. The first German flag to be hauled down at Samoa after the landing of the New Zealand expeditionary force was presented yesterday morning to tho City of Auckland. A dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum was yesterday declared by tho Cuited Permanent Building and Investment Society of Auckland at its annual meeting. A motion expressing disapproval of mem-, bers of industrial unions being compelled to attend union meetings on Sundays was passed by the Anglican Diocesan Synod yesterday. Tho condition of tho wool market in Sydney is regarded with satisfaction by local producers. High prices are expected to rule during tho New Zealand sales, which open next month. The appeal of an art dealer against a decision giving the Exhibition Commissioners power to claim from him a percentage of tho money secured from an art- union was dismissed yesterday. In the caso of James Finlay, who died in the hospital on October 18, as a result of a fall from a horse, the coroner • yesterday returned • a verdict .that death was duo to a fractured skull and to meningitis. An enthusiastic response was made yesterdav to the Mayor's appeal to organise a movement to raise funds throughout the city and province for the relief and assistance of Belgians who have suffered / -through the > war. , ■ Tho two arbitrators to sit with a Supreme Court Judge as a Court of Arbitration to decide the safety or otherwise of tho explosive, monobel, for use in the Huntlv mines have been nominated by the 'l'aupiri Coal Mines Company and the Mines Department respectively. *

New; Zealand: . \ The Government meteorologist prophesies cold, windy, and-squally weather. The Prime Minister made a statement last night about the remaining business of the session. The Labour organisations in Wellington have decided to contest four city Beats at the coming elections. ! The official inquiry into the loss. of the steamer Mangapapa' will be opened on Monday, at Westport.v It was stated in the Bouse yesterday that the unemployment difficulty in Auckland is Considerably less acute'than it was. , The Premier was questioned . in the House of Representatives yesterday in regard to rumoured appointments to the Legislative Council. In reply to a question in the House, the Minister "for Railways stated that it was impossible to build the required new locomotives in the Dominion. -The Prime Minister hinted in the House yesterday that the events of the past few weeks had strengthened his belief, in the desirability of a local navy, The War: Greece ie reported to be making warlike preparations. - 'The war risk rate for shipping in'the! Atlantic has-been reduced 4s 6d per cent. Russian reservists who desire to do so may join the New Zealand expeditionary forces.' A British column in South Africa has captured three of. Colonel Maritz's officers and 70 men.; The Germans attacked the entire front of the allies from La, Basse to tho' Mouse, but were everywhere repulsed. The rates of pay allowed the men at the forts have been" increased and the men are to be given a chance to go to the front. ft is officialy stated that the Japanese have occupied" the Caroline and Marshall Islands in the Pacific for military purposes. - ". ' / The death-roll of the Japanese cruiser 'J'akachiho, which struck a mine while on patrol duty in ftiau-Chau Bay, fcicals nearly 300. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent who visited the battlefields in Northern France considers tho German sledgehammer has lost its power. 'Hie Germans aro endeavouring to peneuade the American Minister to Belgium to wc- his influence to induce America to recognise the Kaiser as ruler in Belgium. The Austrian Army has been dispersed at "i chortkoff and the town occupied. Hie shellin? of a mountain railway by the Russians was a decisive factor in the engagement. After 10 days' strenuous fighting at Arras, the allies hold their ground firmly, and have repulsed attacks, the fighting now being in the Chaulnes region, cast of j Amiens. Further detail.-; are recorded of tho naval action off the Dutch coast to the effect that (he L'ndaunted's marksmanship was excellent, pieces of the enemy's ships being blown high into the air. Before the Belgians effected a junction with troops from (Mend and became masters of the Ha'wbrouck-Houlers Railway, they encountered the Prussian Guard, who lost all their officers and left 600 dead on the field. Fierce fighting has occurred to the westward of Warsaw, where the Russians have been hurled back toward their main position on the line from Skierniewice, south of Czenstochowa, through Kielee to Sandomierz, on the Galician frontier, northwest of Przemysl.