NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15820, 18 January 1915, Page 4

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: A young woman accidentally shot herself in the foot at Riverhead restcaday. A girl was knotted down and seriously injured by a motor-car at is borne on Saturday night. Thirtv-two more men left Auckland on Saturday t<> join the fourth reinforcement draft ai Tri-nuhani. A sixteen-roomed v.'hare At lliungia Station, Waipiro Bay, was burned to t..e ground on Friday evening.

The Edci Tcrract Road Board proposes to raa.se a. 'oan of £23,000 for the■ .mpr-'-ve-jjr'iiO of the streets ill the district.

Little damage was d<>ne by a- tire whicn Li... out last night- m the residence of Mi. .H. (J. r-etn-Miiith. or Victoria Avei; no, Heinuera.

he scow Combine -ovcrturn.-'d when at tlic whart eai iy .11 • »U'irday morning and two tC.im<Mi .tad -i wry narrow cn.ajH> Irom being drowned.

.V [n'tition asking tor J- scrutiny <-i the votes cast at tfi«* . !<.•«.t-ion tor '.no I aulnarumn scat luu-* b»>'i i<>dged by Mr. C. ii. iihca, tilt- Uoio.n andidate.

.New Zealand: Th« eloc.tio.i t.»r the Punedin _Cer.tral seat has bean ti\«l for February 3.

For cruelty to a child placed in her care-, a Wellington wom.iu was tin £/10 on tvaturday.-

Two tires occurred in Wellington early yist-erdav morning, a shop ana a house toeing damaged.

"liristchurch bakers arc raising the price vi a. k>'.l ot bread to yd across tale counter and 10d when delivered..

In an explanation concerning the propooed military bust* nospitaj. at rrentha,m, Colonel i'umy stated mat the Medical Association nad appealed lor U2OOO, wnicil was a small tracUou ot the actual cost. The chairman of tho Wellington College Board ot Governors, in a letter ol ~esignation, complained that' the eliect 01 tno Luuciinon .Act v>t lyl4 was to transform the board into a mere creature of tfte Minister. The War: The Germans have been compelled to evacuate a crest cast of jfont-a-^iousson. A fierce German attack by the enemy, following upon a violent bombardment at La BoiseLe, was Tepuieed. The British military authorities consider that an attack on .fc>gypt, ii it in to be made at ail, cannot long De deferred. . '• A conference of shipping companies in London has raised the freights to Australia by cargo steamers 5s per ton.

Advices from Sebastopol state that the Russian Black Sea fleet has sunk 80 sailing ships transporting Turkish troops to Anatolia.

In the region of Soissons the allies' artillery dispersed an assembling regiment, blew up a German battery, and demolished a breastwork.

Over a hundred mines have drifted ashore 'on the Belgian coast. Soldiers at Knocks, Meyst, and Zeebrngge are busily engaged in "exploding them.

Colonel Holmes, with the balftnw o£ the first New Guinea expeditionary force, .■which ' has recently been replaced} has Returned to Sydney.

The Germans occupy villages on the tight bank of the Aisue, but- are unable to cross the river,, ranch artillery sweeping the plain of Yenisei.

The allies have destroyed German bridges at Saint Mihiel, near Verdun, and have thus thrown the enemy back south of Senones, in the same area.

Further deaths have occurred at Hartlepool as a result of injuries' sustained during the recent raid by German warships, raising the total number to 115.

An official message received in Amsterdam from Vienna states that there is nothing to report in the Carpathians. Increas" ing frost is impeding operations.

Territory tc the west of Ypres has been inundated. The Belgians are able to evacuate their positions, thus enabling many men to be sent southwards.

A man has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Seattle for threatening to take the life of Count Von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador at Washington.

A flotilla of Swedish torpedo-boats is clearing away the German mines which caused shipping between Stockholm and Gothland to be suspended for several days.

While tthe steamer Transylvania was travelling from Liverpool to New York early in December two mines exploded only a few yards ahead directly in her course.

It is officially reported that the South African Union "forces have occupied Swakopmund, on the coast of German Southwest Africa, a short distance north of .Wi.lfish Bay.

The previous week's sport in recruiting in New South Wales has been maintained. The thousand mark was reached for the week just closed. Men are offering freely in the other States.

The British gained a brilliant success over the Germans near La. Baseee, gaining over a kilometre of ground previously m the hands of t.he enemy. The Germans -vv -re driven from a series of strong entrenchments

A high-power wireless station lias been 'discovered concealed at Panama, and other stations situated somewhere near T)ari<'n are reported to he in existence. The British Ambassador has asked that thev be dismantled.

A Canadian regiment , shouting, " For ( -uiada and Old England,"' made a bayonet charge near Y pies. The Germans broke and fled. Trench after trench ■was captured by the Canadians, until the German artillery checked the pursuit.

Sporting and Athletics: The Devonport Yacht Club's cruising race to Mahurangi Heads on Saturday was won on corrected times by lorangi, with Ariki second. W. Webb has accepted ,T. P. Hannan's challenge to row on the Wanganui River for the New Zealand sculling championhip. The race will probably take place about the beginning of May.

The sixth round of th» Auckland Cricket Association's district championship matches was commenced on Saturday. A feature of th day play was the large score of 250 made by E. Horspool and E. MacCormick in a first-wjeket partnership for the Grafton Club. Their individual scores ;wcre 122 and 129 not out respestivciy.

The full rink and pairs championships 'were brought to a- finality at the Dominion Bowling Tournament on Saturday. The former match was won by a Palmers-t-i>n North team skipped by J. A. Nash, v h ■- defeated a Te Hhvi (Wellington) team skipped by E. .T. Hill. The pairs match was won by a Green Island (Dunedin) lean.