NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15767, 16 November 1914, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: "Clothing Day" is trie principal ac tivity of the Belgian Relief Committee to day. Several undefended divorce actions were heard at the Supreme Court on Saturdaj afternoon. Over 10,000 people wtnesscd the sport: and other events in the Domain on Sat unlay afternoon. The Belgian fund opened by Mr. Rol>orl Burns. A<tinn ('<m-ul for Belgium, now amounts 1.. £10.440. The. continued .*]*Tl •>! dry weather is r.m.tiiiß much concern to the farmers in the Wiunparci di.-tritt. \ man was " laired and feathered'" at I' ,|..rua mi Friday evening by a number of iKKidont.l of the district. I in. Canadian Australasian mail steamei V.igara arrived at Auckland yesterday . 11. day ahead of contrwt time. \ 1,i:.;. quantity of European, Ameri < ,i,. .ind Canadian in.m! mailer reached .\ . Mind vest day l.y the Niagara. I .-■ f'levedon Agricultural and Pastoral V h at: ii ■ Show held at Cli'vedon on X, - onlay piowd In l>e a pleat success. !he i iiii-f inspector of fire hrgindes if 1 glm pe-asnl with the work of the A.irkImd 1 .niradi and with the, fire board system generally. I he election of officers for the Water Fide Workers' I'liii-u run. hided on Sat rla\. the whole .if the arbitration "ticket' being let lied. the (internment is t.- share in the reii -m. .ii. .- nsks undertaken by Friendly S- .-.'tii's .ii heh.ilt of their members .who )..iw l ~,, t„, |ho front. \ 0--7. tic tragedy incurred at Mount 1 ,-ii ..i: Saturday, when a man wounded In Hit',, b\ firing three .shots at her with u. i.\. Iver, and then committed suicide. ir>ni received on Saturday tf the Hf.imi.ii fund foi the relief of distress among the Belgians brought the total am in', of the fund to £1859 19s 3d. The Herald Fiunllv fund has now <!■■ ..I. the sum of £1295 8s 3d having 1,.-, i.eeived for the relief of distress ir ! '•■■ mining town . an sod by the recent dis New Zealand: A sale of gift slock at Feilding for the Belgian fund realised over £600. The Dominion Hide Association will hold its annual title meeting at Tjvuthatn text veal'. The museum at Wanganui was broken into on Friday night and some Norwegian Coins were .stolen. While addressing a meeting at Core Mr. and Mrs. Philip Snowtlen were subjected to almost continuous interruption. While working m a furniture factory nt l.evm. a Maori named Williams had hi's thumb completely severed from his hand. Th» Gishornp. branch of the Victoria League has- just shipped some cases of warm clothing to London to aid those p.oplr who have suffered by the war. As the result of a motor-car accident between Thames and Coromandel on Saturday. Mr. F. K. Smith, architect, of Hamilton, was badly injured about the The War: Single copies of the London Times sold for £9 in Brussels. The Germans arc preparing defensive Voiks on a huge scale at Bruges. Berlin boasts that Germany can put six million more men into the "field. An aviator dropped two bombs at Bruges and set fire to the petrol tanks. A French gunner, before abandoning bis gun, accounted for 600 Germans. The struggle in the, Argorme has been ficnrlv renewed. The German attacks have failed. The Atistrians invaded Servia. and wore defeated by the Servians, who captured 2000 prisoners. The German ship Komet, captured in New Britain, is to be renamed Una, and recommissioned. Serious rioting has taken place in Ton. Btantinople. The Germans have taken command of the city. English lancers gallantly charged German t-uns on the Aisne. a, mile, away, and Sabred all the artillerymen. If the war is still continuing next .November, Canada hopes to be maintaining 150,000 men in the field. Petitions filed in bankruptcy in Hamburg since the beginning of the war disclose a deficit of £25.000,000. Pilgrims to Mecca, in Arabia, the birthplate of Mahomet, are unable to return to Egypt, and are in great distress. The Sydney drove the Emden ashore. inn the north of Keeling Island, and within 80 minutes sho was a total wreck. Fill Roberts, who was on a. visit to Trance to greet the Indian troops, contacted fl chill and died of pneumonia. '1 wo German submarines which were rerent ly carrying out, daring reconnaissances in th- English Channel, have been sunk. The Germans are preparing to blow up thi culvert under the sluices of the Bruges Canal thereby inundating the country in the vicinity. Britain and France have warned I"'nolo, that Columbia must keep neutral bum,: the presence of German ships in I'a.ifi- waters. 'He- ..'dies' artillery at Vpres demolished Mio'ergioiinrl gallenes in which the Ger ' ' :|,| '•'''""' taking refuge, and numbers '■. .- tombed. ' 1-T gram from Berlin slate that the o-ei -~ now in (",,1,1,n/. on the Rhine. 1'" Zeppelins are . out inimllv circling <\< i 1., ■•• residence. ' .1 hired German officers state that 1 -i' i iiiilbnii Germans are lighting in the > 'T d.-tit. and they estimate the I lor man !•**••* at, '10.000. II is i.ffi. iallv slated that the Herman rt'i.i. It- between I.vs arid the sea are less k" - ami the allies at. some points have r. smiled the offensive. One Belgian regiment made seven bavoiiet attacks in one night between Ni"iport and Dumunde, and of 240 who participated, orly 50 survived. A message from London states that vanon-- llelci.in relief committees ami distingnihhed Belgians have guaranteed £600.000 for lie reliet <,f distil ms in Belgium. len of th > officers of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Gros.-e, which was sunk by the Higlillvr, who were on parole at' Lai P.i'mas. escaped ill a Dutch steamer disposed fig firemen. Sporting and Athletics: ' I hiring seven days' racing in Canterbury, extending from the 7th to the 14th font., the sum of £200,134 10s was passed through the totalizator. At the Canterbury Jockey Club's meeting, held at Riccorton on Saturday, the Goo. G. Stead Memorial Cup was won by Mr. W. E. BidwiU'a celt depute-