NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15847, 18 February 1915, Page 4

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: Great activity is being displayed in the ranks of the National Reserve. Many appointments of teachers were authorised by the Education Board yesterday. Recruit* axe. steadily coming forward for the reinforcements for the expeditionary force. The ratepayers of R-emuera approved of amalgamation -with the city at the poll held yesterday. A new departure in farming education was decided upon by the Auckland Education Board yesterday. It is sported that the Auckland battalion xv, the honours in a review and march past in Egypt. A Whangarei magistrate gave two interesting decisions yesterday affecting the (onduct of coal mines.

The question of whether ice-cream may be sold on Sundays was argued in the Magistrate's Court at Whangarei yesterday. The neglected state of the roads in the North of Auckland was referred to byBishop Cleary, when discussing his motor tour of the back-blocks districts. An inquest was held by the coroner yesterday concerning the death of a builder, who was found dead in bed, the cause of death proving to be heart trouble. According to a statement made by Mr. D. Teed. Mayor of Newmarket, the Borough Council will immediately consider the question of amalgamation with the City. News has been received of the death at Hazebrouek, France, on February 9, of Lieutenant E H. Tayler, formerly of Auckland, of the York and Lancaster Regiment. A successful claim for compensation was made by the Public Trustee at the Arbitration Court yesterday on behalf of the estate of & carter who died as the result of over-straining himself while at work. The sum of £16,125 was yesterday awarded by the Compensation Court to the trustees of the Gillies estate as the price to be paid by the City Council for the Parnell park, the council to pay the costs of the proceedings. New Zealand: A fire at Gisborne last night destroyed a number of shops and offices. The swimming championship meeting was continued at Napier yesterday. Serious bush and grass fires are reported in the neighbourhood of Woodville.

A; little boy ■was run over by a motorlorry in Christchurch, and subsequently died. Unsettled, cloudy and squally weather is predicted by the Government meteorologist. The Plumbers' Conference in Dunedin last night adopted a number of New Zealand remits. Three Hindoos were each fined £50 at Te Kuiti yesterday for illegally selling liquor. The Cup at the Dunedin Jockey Club's autumn meeting yesterday was won by Warstep. The new system of registering recruits has already proved very successful in Wellington. New Zealand wool may now be exported to the United States, under certain restrictions. Particulars are made public of the condition under which the New Zealand nurses are proceeding to the front. The four runaway Maltese sailors from the Westmeath, recently arrested in Auckland, were before the Court in Wellington yesterday.

The inquest into the circumstances of the death of the youthful boxer -who expired after a boxing match in Gisborne, resulted in a verdict of "no blame being attachable to anyone." The War : A Sydney firm has been fined for trading with the enemy. Great damage was inflicted by the British aerial raid on FlandersThe American newspapers praise the firmness of the American Note to Germany. Prisoners who are seriously incapacitated are now being exchanged by Great Britain and Germany. The trial of the rebel Christian de Wet. who was captured early in January, has opened at Bloemfontein. A vessel guiding some German torpedo boats through a mine zone struck a mine and sank off Borkum Island. The Australian Commonwealth Defence Department will be spending £11.000,000 before the end of June. The publication of the monthly British Navy List has been suspended in order that information shall not be given to the enemy.

In the course of an interview the Russian Minister for Finance declared that Russian markets were closed to Germany for ever. Tile German threat has not caused alarm to British shipowners, who await Thursday with philosophic calm. Sailing dates have not been altered. The members (if the Emden's landing party who escaped from the Cocos Islands in the schooner Ayesha have been decorated with the Iron Cross. The. military correspond em of the Times says that if the recruiting maintains its present standard it will reach a strength of three million men. Private, advices from Germany state that the cotton and jute mills in the largest manufacturing centres have been closed owing to lack of material. The Dutch Red Cross staff at Oldenzaal presented tobacco and fruit to 110 British soldiers who have been liberated. Most of the men were maimed or blind. Upon the suggestion of the army and navy staffs, collections have been made among the German armies in France, Belgium and Poland towards the cost of building a new Eniden. A Note has been presented to Germany by Holland protesting against the declaration of the war zone in the North Sea, and pointing out that neutral vessels are entitled to examination before hostile action. The report of the Rockefeller Commission, which inquired into the condition of Belgium, states that 320,000 Belgian refugees are in Holland. 100,000 in England, but many driven out of their homes are still in Belgium. The Chines* Minister at Tokio has informed l'ekin that Japan declines to modify her demands. China is determined not to negotiate immediately excepting in connection with Eastern Mongolia and South Manchuria.