NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15748, 24 October 1914, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

(Auckland: Sheep station buildings were destroyed by fire near Qisborno. Contributions to the Auckland Citizens' Patriotic Fund now amount to £50,333 8s t>d. As next Monday is labour Day it will be observed as a general holiday on the waterfront. The. trout fishing season in the Auckland 'Acclimatisation Society'« district opens on November 1. Donations received yesterday brought the total amount in tho Herald Patriotic I'ind to £9759 5s Bd. A civilian caught wearing a military uniform unlawfully, was lined £2 at the Police Court yesterday. Labour Day will be observed on Monday, the chief attraction being the usual l>iot'e«SK>n and sports in tho Domain At a meeting held in the Town Hall concert chamber last night, it was decided to form an Auckland branch of the New Zealand Moderate League. A decision concerning tho management of the affairs of R. W. Hill, who escaped from the Porirua Mental Hospital early last year, was delivered by Mr. Justin) Cooper yesterday. Tho fund opened by Mr. Robert Burns, acting-Consul for Belgium, in aid of the suffering refugees of that country a*, a result of the Gentian invasion, now ►mounts '■« £2376 18s 4d. A sum of £47 14s was added yesterday t> the Herald Fund opened for the pur- | pose of relieving tho distress of the Belgians. The total amount received to date us £295 18s 6d. Hew Zealand: There have been sales of a few lines of wheat in Canterbury during the past lew days. The secretary of the Wellington Watertide Workers' Union is being charged with tho misappropriation of funds. Tho directors of the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand have made a, number of awards for bravery in saving life. A proposal that legislative authority be given women to take seats in the House of Representatives was rejected by tho House on Thursday night. The fact that the guard at Somes Island lia< to tarry water for the German prisoner.-, there —the Germans refusing to do this workwas referred to in the Houso of Representatives yesterday. The War: Roulers has been lost and retaken by the allies. The, enemy'. l , aviators are activ« in Belgium. Trafalgar Day was celebrated with great (enthusiasm in London. { The Servians repulsed Austrian attacks near Belgrade inflicting heavy losses on tho enemy. The Home Office is active in th« arrest of all Germans and Austrians between the Bges of. 17 and 45. The Siberians bore the brunt of the oattlo at Augustowo, and inflicted terrible losses with tie bayonet. Melbourne trad 3 circles rasped, that einco the war sheepskins have been shipped to Germany, via America. The Kaiser's son-in-law; the Prince of Cumberland, who was leading the Zieten Hussars at the French front, is missing. Advices from Austria give news of the alarming spread among the troops of ' cholera-, smallpox, typhoid, plague, and ! iockjaw. ' , The statement has been made in Ada- • laide that a man in the Government em- ! ploy there has given valuable information i to Berlin. Gorman officers are stated to have assumed tho higher commands in the Austrian Army, and the troops are mixed with German soldiers. In a letter to a Dunedin friend, a lady in England gives instances of diabolical cruelty perpetrated upon Belgian women, by German soldiers. The Flushing correspondent of the Daily i Mail says that the German positions on the Belgian seaboard and in the vicinity are becoming critical. German atrocities in Russian territory | eve reported, and many villages have been wantonly devastated, while peasants were subjected to barbarous treatment. New Zealand's contingent of Maori , troops, now in camp at Avondale, was | inspected yesterday by the general officer commanding the forces, Colonel Robin. After sacking Bailleul, the Germans let looso hundreds of the inmates of tho big asylum there, leaving them to wander over the, country, suffering terribly from cold and hunger. Witnesses of the fighting in Dixmnndo, south-east of Nieuport, state that tho ' Germans, in withdrawing, suffered heavily from tho bayonet, and abandoned thousands of dead and wounded. Applications for Treasury Bills totalled £43,000,000. The amount required was £15,000,000 and the tenderers received 30 per cent, of tho amount applied for. Tho Government is paying 3$ per cent. The League's Trafalgar manifesto Declares that the strength, fighting capacity, and general efficiency of the British fleet itand on a higher level than has been known before in British naval administration. A communique, dated Wednesday, midright, says that a violent battle raged " throughout the day on the left wing, from 1 the North Sea. to the south of La Baaseo, ' .. rnileg southwest of Lille. The allies I held their own everywhere.