NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15822, 20 January 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: The Auckland Belgian Relief Fund now amounts to £41,759 6s 4d. The Herald's Military Rase Hospital Fund has increased to £31 7s 6d. A railway guard named Bryson has 0..-appeared from Matawai, Poverty Bay. A c.ise of chickenpox has been discovered in the babies' ward at the Auckland Hospital. A carpenter named Ludwig was seriously injured by a fall from a scaffold at Hamilton yesterday. A young man named Smith was killed whilst bushfelling at Karamu, 14 miles from Hamilton. The annual ratable value of the Borough of Newmarket, is £38,200, a,* compared with .:,57.400 last year. A Waihi resident has been fined for Slivering whisky at Waihi in beer bottles -uhout properly labelling them. The municipal and other local elections will take place on April 28. and the rolls ai" now in course of preparation. The annual tournament of the Dominion Rowling Association was brought to a suc- • e>*fui conclusion in Auckland yesterday. A total of 22.274 boxes of butter, valued at .£72.997. is being taken By the Whaka•ane. which leaves to-morrow for London, % la Wellington. Trade for the week has been fairly well maintained, and the usual bookings for next month already to hand are well up to the average for this time of rear. Arrangements are now well forward for i.;« Auckland Anniversary Regatta, which will be held on January 29. The steamer Monowai has been secured as flagship. The Auckland Hospital Board has ! granted Dr. C. E. Maguire. medical ] superintendent. leave of absence for a year to go to the front as a medical officer A man who distributed some election herature. which contained imitation voting papers, on the day before the general eWtion, was? fined" at Whangarei yesterday. A return presented to the Auckland Hospital Board List night showed that, while the number of admissions increased last year as compared with 1913. the mortality decreased. Holders of insurance stocks have regained the confidence which in some cases was displaced in the early stages of the war, and inquirers have found difficulty in placing transactions. New Zealand: The results of the matriculation examinations are announced. A bookmaker has been fined £30 at Chtistchurcb. for illegal betting at a race meeting. Destructive bush fires have occurred in the Akitio County, between Pahiatua and Dannevirke. A Dunedin shopkeeper has been fined "for keeping his shop open on Sundays for tat sale of soft drinks. A young man named Charles Lane has been killed at Milton, Otago, through his motor-bicycle colliding with a. trap. The Canterbury Licensed Victuallers' Association has drawn up a list of minimum prices for liquor soli in bulk. A statement regarding the Dominion's finances for the past nine months -was made yesterday by the Minister for France. A report of the proceedings at the. court-martial held in Samoa, on F. E. N, tiaudin has been received by the Minister for Defence. A woman named Mrs. Keszlen and her year-old son -were drowned in the Wakamarina River. Marlborough, on Friday last. The mother lost her life in endeavouring to save her child. Dr. Wilkin, of Pongaroa, near Pahiatua, was struck by a limb from a burning tree whilst motoring through the FCene of the bush fires on Monday. He received a painful -wound, and his'motorcar was practically destroyed. A private deputation of Southern flourmillers waited upon the Prime Minister yesterday in regard to the -wheat supply question. In. a subsequent statement on the. subject,, Mr. Massey said that there irjst be an agreement as to prices between the Government and the millers. The War: The Turks have notified Persia that they will withdraw provided the Russians evacuate the Caucasian region. Representatives of all branches of sport in Sydney are forming a rifle club, which starts with a membership of 200. An officer who has returned from the Gahcian front states that the Russians hold all the important passes into Hungary. The London Times' Petrograd correspondent states that Roumanian interven- ' "mi in the war is expected within a fortnight. It is officially reported that, the British forces agisting the Sultan of Oman at Muscat repelled a rising and inflicted 500 casualties. Petrograd reports state that the Russ his Tecoptured trenches at Cumine, on the left bank of the Vistula, killing all the deteaders. During the last fortnight five German <argo steamers, varying from 1000 tons to 2000 tons, have been sunk by striking mines in the Baltic. The Germans' attempts to bombard Tarnow, in West Galicia. with big calibre tuns were baulked by the efficiency of the Russians' artillery. A British cruiser has reported that she sank the Hamburg-American liner President off Cuba, while proceeding from Porto Rico to Havana. The South Australian Cabinet, has ac- > epted the resignation of Mr. H. Hornburg. Attorney-General. Mr. Homburg's resignation is the outcome of anti- < German feeling. j Recruits .".re now coming forward >o well throughout the Commonwealth that it is believed the Federal Government -trill be more than able to fill its promises reg-.rding the supplementary expeditionary contingents. Copenhagen reports state that a. derelict German seaplane was found in the North Sea carrying two bombs. There was no trace of the occupants. The seaplane probably took part in resisting the British raid on Cuxhaven. Reports from Paris state that suburban Paris is suffering intensely from the increase in the cost i.f living and the stagnation of business. Every family has sent a soldier to the front, and "manv two and three. Conflicting statement," me being made concerning the position at La. Bassee. An eye-witness at genera] headquarters now denies the reported capture of the German positions at this point, and adds that no attack was attempted. The Russian Government has requested the Spanish Ambassador to complain to the German and Austrian Governments of the atrocities committed by their soldiers. The complaint says the ambulance men methodically despatched and mutilated wounded Russians, and several Cossacks were hanged.