NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15769, 18 November 1914, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

'Auckland: The oflicial opening of .Myers Park baa been postponed for another month. An attempt at robbery with violence is believed to have been made in Waihi recently. 'lhe.ro were 279 males and 15 females in the Auckland gaol at the end ot last week. 'I ho clothing to bo forwarded from Auckland to th« Belgians is valued at £30,000. "Clothing Day'' will result in about MX) coses of clothes Ifeing forwarded to trio Belgians. There has been little change since last v.<«'k in the L-eneral distributing business in Aii'-hlatul. \ large number oi entertainments are in ]i> par.ition to raise fund; in aid ot the Hill-ken Belgians. A wcrkman was killed by a fall nt r.-i'-th nt i lie lauranga Borough Council's Jiydrn 11 • . trie work:-. A remit lance man was charged at Whai _nr. i yesterday with having spurious < •'' 'i in his possession \ memorial service (or the late Earl K- l.erls -.mII lie held in St. Matthew liiuich on Sunday morning. A \\ ,uhi mail was arrested on Monday <: a i barge .if failing t<> comply with the i.-ims '.1 the Bankruptcy Ac t. 1 I S| ib -• i ip' err; ien e,] yesterday brought i ' '■ i*a.il -I ' h.- Hi ii mo tuiiil for the re ! l.'f .1 Belgians to ill'JM Us 'M. ! V hftecn year r.ld |..-y v.a.s committed! 1 ■ Hiirohain at \\ lian.,arei yesterday. He I ] I. ad.-d -uiliy to a sei ies oi charges of bin ul.u v. Mr. P. I'. Smith, a well known Hamil'on man. died in the '1 harnes Hospital as 1 :ie lesult i.| injiiiu-s received 111 a motor he. el.•lit. "all the net profits front the A. anil I'. A>siii latum s Metropolitan Show, commencing on .November L'b, wilT be given to the Belgian fund I he Auckland Harbour Hoard yesterday il.--us.sed In* proposals in regard {<> in- ' leased wry wnarfage charges, and ;el.i| ted a now by law. I he completion of St. raid's Church has been undertaken by the church officers. 'I In- < ruction of foundations will bo (omnieiii ed immediately. 'I lie steamer Kakaia is to load 40,000 l»'.\es of butter at Auckland for London next week. Ihe shipment is valued at about £115.000 f.0.1i., Auckland. A 1 nnm .lack was presented vesterdav 1" the Heine Bay school children by tho Kev. Know Ins hempton, en behalf ot the s hool hildren ol Heine Bay Council brluxil, Kent, England.

I ntil further notice tho Huddart-Parker steamer Riverina will not leave Sydney i.util noon on every alternate Thursday : "i Auckland, arriving here on each alternate .Monday. She will sail on the return, trip at noon even* other Tuesday. New Zealand: A fire in a warehouse in Napier did a roasidcrablo amount of damage. Ihe New Zealand Times v. Dominion libel action has been settled out of Court. ''"he grain and produce market in Canterbury just now is characterised by a lack of animation. f Ihe Government meteorologist is expecting colder and stormy weather, partiinlaily in the southernmost districts. A Scotch paper has published, from America, an amusing message about the imprisonment of Germans in New Zealand. Ail application by Wellington taxidrivers fur larger wages and better working conditions is to come before the Arbitration Court. t The Premier, in reply to representations ma do in Christ-church said that the embargo might be removed from fine wool and sheepskins intended for exportation to America. A Christchnrch deputation yesterday directed the 'rime .Minister's attention to mi offer being made by a Dutch firm to procure German goods for merchants desiring tho same. 'Hie Minister for Defence did not give n very sympathetic hearing to a deputation of Dunedin men who urged that more drastic treatment should be accorded German residents and interests. The War: An artillery duel proceeded yesterday from N'ieuport to Dixmunde. There is evidence that the Germans are beginning to he affected by their heavy losses. Germans have inundated the country round Ostond to prevent the allies' advance. ( lei maris lured into a mined village in North France left battalions of dead amid the ruins. It is officially stated that the winter is interfering with the campaign on the Continent. The Germans have issued a proclamation urging the civilians of East Prussia to take up arms against the Russians. Ihe House of Commons has agreed to n war credit vote of £225,000,000, also the laming of an extra 1.000,000 troops<;«>rniaii atta< ks south east of Yores have been repulsed. The alii, have assumed the offensive and recaptured several posi tl< US. fie liritish have lost five armoured < rimers and the Germans one, and the I'nlisli five light i i uisers and the. Germans inn''. Belgian gineers have Mown up h'Mi-i,-, along the coast which were found t-> lie placed on concrete foundations suit able for guns. Ihe siege of the Austrian fortress of Pr/.e:nysl, in Gaiicia, by the Russians is I r-n ceding. '1 he Russians are destroying the loi tifn ations. It is rumoured that a large force of German* in an advanced position at Dix•tiiiiiile has been cut off by the floods as th" result of storms. Replying to a question in the House of < ominous, Mr. Winston Churchill said til, i.- was every reason to believe that II M S Can,,put-, was safe. Mr. As<|iiith has stated that, the actual cost of the war was between £900,000 and £1.000,000 daily, and that the daily cost of th,' war was not likely to diminish. Berlin reports state that the flight from Cracow is becoming general. The German colony has fled to Berlin and Broslau. It is rumoured that the Austriana will not defend the city, so that it may escape the horrors of bombardment. A correspondent strongly foreshadows the possibility of the Germans withdraw- ; ing troops from the eastern theatre to J. spare more for tlic western front, and he ' concludes that there is vital necessity for Britain to add reinforcements to hot troops U| tho Ijroat,