NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15821, 19 January 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: There were 279 males and 9 females in the Auckland gaol at the cioso of last week. During the week-end. the Auckland Mounted' Rifle Club held a, rout* march to Brown's Bay. An elderly gumdigger named Alexander Beaton has been burned to death in his but at Oumtown. A cottage at Pawwi. occupied by Mr, Johnstone, railway employee, lias been destroyed by tire.

N.nip improvements in. regard to the Rutorua fisheries are suggested by Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P.

T!i.- depth of water in fhe Paeroa reservoir is now only about 3ft. as against the Hi.-ua! depth of '25ft.

The Labour Bureau in Auckland was Pin ivssful last week in rinding work for L'O married and 14 single men.

The steamer Riverina. which arrived finni Sydney yesterday, brought 140 passeTigors" and 1250 tons of cargo.

A petition for a new election in the Northern Maori electorate has been lodged by one nf the defeated candidates.

A ~or.«o fire on a large section in C-ilioite Road, Do von port, endangered B'>nie nouses in the vicinity last evening.

A man named William Samuel Beehre lias been arrested at Whangarei on a . barge of forgery, and remanded to Feild-

('< mi plaints have been made to the Mayor that meat is carted through the streets v. tin nit the carcases being properly covered.

A bo.it manufacturer states that- owing t" the rise in the price of leather, the price of boots will go up by about 10 per rout or 15 per cent.

A meeting of consignees of the cargo in the German steamer Wismar was held yesterday afternoon for the purpose of discussing the position.

A tiro ha* l>ot*n rapine during the past two days in the Pukekino and Waihi f-ivamf* and it is expected that considerable loss trill result.

An inquiry regarding the standing dispute between the Thames Borough and County Councils regarding -water supply matters was commenced yesterday.

The scow Combine, which capsized of! the Nelson Wharf on Saturday morning, was righted on Sunday, and towed to the slip for overhaul yesterday.

The names of those Auckland candidates who were placed among the first hundred in the results of the public service entrance examinations are announced.

A conference is being arranged between the Mount Eden Borough Council and the Mount Roskill Road Board to discuss matters in connection with the latter body's .water supply.

A fire, which is believed to hare been i used by some boys -who were smoking in the vicinity, did considerable damage at the To Aroha Dairy Company's factory at Waihou on Sunday evening!

The Minister for Defence has Intimated to the Mayor of Auckland that he expects to make an announcement shortly regarding the proposed reduction of railway fares to members of the expeditionary force encamped Rt Trentham. Hew Zealand: A list of University passes is anpounced. A motor garage and oar at Inveircargill Mas destroyed by fire on Saturday evening.

A eix-year-old boy named McCullough was killed at Stratford on Sunday by the capsizing of a milk cart.

A youth named George Williams was killed at Waitati, near Dnnedin, on Sonday through his gun exploding.

Two rabbiters named Patterson and White have died at Kongotea, Manawata, bs the result of a drinking bout.

A raft has been washed ashore at Bluff Hill. It is suggested that it may have come from the missing Australian trawler Endeavour.

Burglars broke into the office of Messrs. B. Hannah and Co., at Stratford during the week-end and after dynamiting the safe stole some cash and cheques.

The body of a young man named Covle Lis been found at Jackson's Head, Marlborough, with the top of his head blown off by a gun. It is supposed to be a case 01 suicide.

The body of a station Land named Thomas Johnson, who had been missing for a fortnight, has been found with a cut throat near the Erewhou sheep station, Kawke's Bay. There was a razor in the Land of deceased. The War: A Petrograd communique states that successful progress continues to be made on the Lower Vistula. The French Government is making immediate advances to ruined farmers to pnabie them to buy seed and renew stockThe Russian advance guards in the Austrian province of Bukovina stormed and captured the Kirlibaba Pass, in the Carpathians, bordering on Transylvania. ■

The Greek Minister to Britain, speaking in London, said: "We are not only in sympathy with you, but are absolutely devoted to the cause of England in this great world-crisis."

Tho Kaiser, in a, message requesting that no festivities shall be held on his birthday, January 24, says he desires all to realise the gravity of the situation and the direction in which fortune seems to have turned her face.

A message from Constantinople states that Enver Pasha, who was in command of the Turkish army operating against the Russians, has returned, for the alleged purpose of suppressh g the conspiracy against the \oung Turk Party.

An official communique states that the battle at Kauraurgan, on tho Russo-Tur-kish frontier, lasted three days in an un- ■ easing snowstorm. It ended in a complete Russian victory. The Turkish rearguard was annihilated.

Orders have been issued in Germany making it unlawful to make pure wheat bread, and also prohibiting the buying and selling of gold coins above par, under penalty of a fine of 500 marks (£ls) and a term of imprisonment.

The proprietors of the Perth Dailv News newspaper have been summoned "by the Defence Department for publishing on December 15 certain military dispositions of that date. Die papers'of the third tuition were .seized by tho censor.

Further particulars regarding the capture of Bougainville, the largest of the Solomons, formerly owned bv Germany, show that it was carried out without fighting by troops from Rabaul. On November 19 tho Admiralty Group was also occupied.

Advices from Capetown state that the Pull Court of the Union lias given the. division that all claims respecting the rareo of the German steamers Birkenfels, T''-inim. and Apolla must be proved before April 15. and accompanied by the necessary documents.