NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15747, 23 October 1914, Page 4

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: The Herald Patriotic Fckd no* amounts to £9709 7s Bd. A total of £248 4s 6d lias been contributed to the Herald Belgian Fund. A sum of £1203 12s 9d has been contributed to the Herald Huntly Rebel Fund. Two milk vendors were proceeded against yesterday for delivering milk before four o'clock in the morning. There has been little chance in the condition of business in Auckland since the beginning of the week'. A rifle-shooting contest is to be held between the members of the Auckland and C hristchureh Stock Exchanges. The steamer Rotorua, which arrived yesterday, has 3000 tons of general cargo from London to discharge at Auckland. The Auckland Citizens' Patriotic Fund is gteadilv increasing, and the total amount received to date is now £50,330 8s 6d. Two judgments in connection with the employment of apprentices were received in Auckland from the Arbitration Court yesterday. The last of the season's oysters reached the Government depot on the King's Wharf mi Wednesday. The season has been a most successful one. The Manukau Water Supply Board is asking consumer! to exercise strict economy in view of the threatened shortage of water during the summer months. One of the Opposition candidates announced for the Thames seat has withdrawn, leaving a straight-out contest be tweeu Government and Opposition, The Thames Drainage Board decided yesterday that owing to its unsatisfactory financial' position drainage operations at the Thames must cease on October 29. The provisions in the Auckland Grocers' Assistants and Drivers' Award for weekly employment and payment of full wages have ' been suspended by an Order-in-Council. The French barque Chateau d'lf sailed yesterday afternoon for New Caledonia after a prolonged stay at Auckland. Dur iw the vessel's visit members of the crew have been much in the public eye. « News has been received in Auckland of the death at Frampton, England, of the Rev. Wvndham Allan Chaplin, _ vicar of Falfield/and formerly of Ellerslie, Auckland. The deceased was accidentally drowned In the canal at Frampton early in September. New Zealand: A young girl was severely burned at her home at Rakaia. A child was found dead, hanging (Tom its cot, near Christcuurch. yesterday. No open order has yet been given the New Zealand woollen mills for the manufacture of khaki. The Government meteorologist prophesies cold and rainy weather, and an unsettled week-end. It is said that there are ample. ships available for the conveyance of product* to west of England ports. Two bodies, believed to be those of victims of the Kairaki wreck, have been washed up at Grey mouth. -. The Canterbury Petroleum Prospecting Company officially opened its oil-boring works at Chertsey yesterday. The Education Committee of the House is still taking evidence regarding the merits and demerits of the Bible in Schools Referendum Bill. An interesting statement concerning the financial position of the Dominion was made in the House by the Minister for Finance last night. Excitement was caused in a Wellington, street yesterday by a car careering along without a driver. The latter was clinging on underneath. The War: Portugal proposes to send 90,000 men to help the allies. Belgian children have been killed by mines washed up on the coast. Another island in the Caroline Group has been taken from the Germans. It is reported that the allies have occupied Courtrai, north-east of Lille. The. Belgian Army is distinguishing itself by a spirited defence of its positions. ' 7 —— Three more steamers have been sunk by the German cruiser Emden in the Bay of •Bengal. ( The British fleet was attacked by submarines, which were driven off by destroyers. ' The Minister for Defence will inspect the Maori camp at Avoudalo on Saturday morning. It is reported that the Russians have forced the Germans and Austrians back to the westward. Repeated attempts by the Germans to break through the allies' lines have been everywhere repulsed. Many smaller towns in France and Belgium were taken after magnificent dashes by brave French troops. The whole of tho Herman prisoners from Samoa are now to be interned at Motuihi, near Auckland. A battery of the Royal Horse, Artillery, being isolated, made a brave resistance, and eventually saved its guns. The allies arc reported to have expelled 5000 Germans from Bruges. A great Belgian success it reported from Roulers, By utilising as trenches « cutting 60 miles long near the Belgian frontier, tho Germans were able to greatly delay tho advance of the. alliefc. The allied forces are reported to be. now fighting with pronounced hope and confidence. The. Germans have reached the limit of their striking force. Details of the damage done by (lie German bombardment of Papeete- are given bv passengers by the Talune, which arrived from the Islands yesterday, The German gunboat Comet was captured while hiding in a river in Northern New Guinea, and sending out wireless messages to other German warships. Th.3 presence of the two German cruiser; in the Pacific made the voyage of the Talune, which returned to Auckland yes terday, a somewhat eventful and exciting one. The Germans who were advancing southwards along the Belgian coast were effectively bombarded by the British' fleet, and forced to retire, Buffering heavy