NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15900, 24 April 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: The Herald Belgian Fund now totals £772 10s 9<d. A second motor-ambulance is to be secured lor tho Auckland Hospital. The Cambridge Chrysanthemum Society's annual show was held yesterday. Out of 39 men medically examined at the Drill Hall yesterday, 28 were passed Hi lit. Good business has boon recorded in the Auckland fruit and produce market during the week Fish dealers r.re to meet this morning In further consider the demands of the lMicrmen f-i higher prices for lislt. For the period ended April 10, the Waihi (.old Mining Co., Ltd.. crushed and treated 13.570 tons of ore for a yield of £24.148. Game is reported to be plentiful in tho Auckland district, and the prospects excellent for the shooting season, which opens next Saturday. The Auckland A. and P. Association's annual show will be held on two days only this year, namely, on Friday and Saturday, November '26 anil 27. The number of horses killed in the destruction of Craig's stables is now stated to be 225. The linn's loss greatly exceeds tho amount of its insurances. That there will be great changes in tho future of the Pacific 'was the opinion expressed by Dr. George Brown, tho wellknown missionary, yesterday. Oyster-picking is to commence next Monday at Ponui anil Russell, and the supply will be available for the opening of tho season on l-lio following Saturday. Advice has been received of the death, as the result of measles, of Trooper C. S. Chamberlain, of the 3rd, Auckland, Squadron, Auckland Mounted Rides, and a member of the main expeditionary force. For the encouragement of New Zealand A. and P. Associations in the breeding of horses for military purposes, a scheme has been drawn up by a member of the Manawatu Association and is now under the consideration of a committee of the Auckland Association.

New Zealand: A report has been received from General Godley concerning the main expeditionary force." Tho training ship Amokura has returned to Dunedin from her periodical cruise to the Southern islands. The Maori contingent, which left New Zealand in February, has been ordered to' Malta for garrison duty. •Mr. H. M. Campbell has decided to drop his petition ajrainst the return of Dr. McNab for the Hawkc's Bay seat. There is now a prospect that the work at the new Parliament Buildings in Wellington will be resumed shortly, a satisfactory supply of marble having been located.

The War: Reprisals are threatened by Russia if the German aviators ' continuo to throw bombs, on undefended towns. German property in Britain worth £84,000,000 will remain available in tho future 1 for disposal as seems proper. It is semi-officially announced that the new Russian artillery is proving remarkably efficient, and is out-ranging that of the" Germans. A London cablegram states that the Miners' Conference, by 570,000 votes against. 135,000, defeated a resolution in favour of a national strike. Rioting was renewed in the Austrian Adriatic port of Trieste on April 21 as a requel of a summons to arms of all males between 18 and 50 years of age. In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith announced that Mr. Lloyd George would, on Wednesday or Thursday, introduce proposals limiting drinking facilities. Italy has suspended the sailing of all trans-Atlantic liners from her ports. The Italian Admiralty has requisitioned these vessels as auxiliary cruisers and transports. . The India Office states that the defeat of. the Turks at Shaiba, in Mesopotamia, was more complete than was hoped. They , abandoned motor-cars, guns, ammunition, and waggons. An official statement published in Berlin says that the Anglo-French attacks on the Dardanelles . have been fruitless, and that French troops have been transported from the Dardanelles to Egypt. German prisoners state that the wholesale distribution of Iron Crosses has caused the decoration to be despised. The Kaiser and von Hindenburg are still popular heroes, but the Crown Prince has lost caste. An American journalist, who has returned to London from Germany, says that food U plentiful and Berlin was never more tranquil and gay. Upon the surface, there is no war and plainly the purpose of the Government is that this condition shall continue. In a statement on tho War Estimates, Mr. H. A. Tennant, stated that Earl Kitchener had authorised him to say that recruiting during the past few months was most satisfactory. The numbers were maintained with amazing regularity. The German Ambaesador, Prince von Bulow, who was sent to Italy some months ago as part of a campaign, it was believed, to maintain Italy's neutrality, is now in Rome. The official relations between Italy and the Entente Powers are cordial. An official British notification has been received that all shipping between Holland and the United Kingdom has been temporarily suspended, but it is hoped shortly to resume with a limited service. No explanation of this announcement has been furnished.