NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15931, 31 May 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland} The Herald Hospital Sbijj ''and now totals £5642 4s lOd. The new Mangere Bridge - <" ! 'i 1.-.. . pened by tb.o Prima Minister ibis ai&raoon. A 1. u'i ling in Mechanics' Bay, formerly teed as a ?-«rmill, was partially destroyed by foa on Saturday afternoon. . Gisborne has raised over £90,000 to date for patriotic funds, a carnival queen election on Saturday realising £22,060. The jnrr on Saturday atlernoon found Norman. Sdwin Keals guilty of the Onevi™ murder?, and ho was sentenced i. iith. A Chinaman named Vr'ah was drowned n Saturday morning at Tuumarunui whilst c Hi.g across a ford in tho Wanganui River. Tho .wo fandktetjs ton' the Bay of Islands Mat, Messrs. William Stewart and G. G. Mensies, were viiunated on Saturday It 4. The Jtiayor and Borough Council of Cambridge propose a tax over the whole community for the equipment of tho New Zealand hospital ship. New Zealand: Ths Taumarunui by-election will take place on Juno 15. A number of coal-miner:. from Greymouth and JReefton, hate joined tic colours. The fifth New Zealand reinforcement# havo reached an advanced stage in their training at Trentham. The Government is to set up a Beard of Investigation in connection with State employees of alien races. The wheat area next harvest is expected by the chairman of the' South Canterbury Farmers' Union to' bo doublo that, flf last season. A proposal that railway fares should bo increased to add t » war funds emanates from the Mayor of Palmerston North. drafts of - recruits for the Trentham licgiipent;.- the Earl of Liverpool's Own, left . several centra on Saturday for the Trentham camp. ; Advices from Egypt received by the Minister for Defence, the Hon. James • Allen, indicate that wounded New Zealanders are . comfortable ' in various hosi" pitals; also, from statements of; Turkish i prisoners, that New Zealand soldiers taken prisoner are well treated ,in Cairo, and that many of the missing may be safe. . Tha War: ~~~ ' , . The child injured in the Zeppelin raid . on Southend has since died. ; tVv.'LMI" Belgian; males in Britain over 18 " years of ago are to enrol before June 20. >> M • r-~ V'i i .'The Echo do Paris reports that General i Liman ; von' Sanders has been wounded at r the , Dardanelles. - :7M„ 4, . v 1 ! /:'.v. • " ' ' ■ ' • : ■ j The German version of the Ludwigshafen .'raid states that six civilians were "> killed and nine wounded. , , • -t— There ia ■: jubilation'* in v Germany on ac ; count of tho sinking of ,H.M.S.* ; Triumph Wat' the J?ardahneli«. , C-/« : H T1 r ~~T j „ ; ,'< • The Germans are losing' ground •in the K Baltic provinces; and have lost ' heavily! in the region. •• ' The; Italians on Tuesday occupied the S town of Gradisca, on the Austrian frontier, 25 ; miles. north-west of Trieste, The ! Italians have also occupied the island of !g. Grado, .within \ 20 > miles /of i Trieste. *<-;;Tho French . .have * gained ; ; aew ground north? of Arras, and "the enemy's counterattacks hare been easily'repulsed, The British steamer Oadeby was tcr- ; &■jrediied and sunk off the Wolf Lighthouse, • eight miles south-west of Laad'n End.; British aviators",blew; up a German am- •, munition depot- at Poelcapelle, in Flanders.; One hundred Germans were killed and ••TO! .wounded. Tbo British havo I 'progressed near La Basate. The ■enemy's counter-attacks -near ; ./Ingres continued With • increasing violence, it; but : failed to achieve; any success. : '■v; •< ' V-' '-' r^v !3>■fy;-• i The Cologne Gazette M.y3 that Austria, : laving refused passports 0 Italian Consuls, ;■ r the , Italian. authorities have arrested the : Austrian Consuls of various towns. ; Mr. C. W. Bean, the official Common- ; wealth correspondent, cables that the AusJr tralasian method of advancing may not be ■, the safest, but it is making it-self famous. = A Cfennan communique admits that weak ; divisions in the region of . Sieniawa wero -. forced back on ; the • left bank of the San, losing six cannon. The Neue Freie Press, of Vienna, states f4| that the Turkish troops have reinforced the ;; Austrians before : Przcmysl. > The ? Turks '• are wearing Austrian uniforms and Turkish . fezes.- , ; ■ ¥: -v ; 'v V~ ' * " Italy's new 76-millimetre guns are re- / inarkable for .v.their 'precision. .- They silenced battery of . 12in guns served at Filitch by -Bavarians, many of '"horn were killed. ' ' i • Mr. ; Ashmeadr Bartfo'A, - the "e" kr wn war ' correspondent., v .s ah-'-uil H. ; :i c '. % Majestic when f sho >■ m . torpeJ avl and sank. Mr. Barf , w?? tared, but he ?, lost everything. , . • ' : '- 'The f ?rivi." steamer Mills' '"a, 10,320 ? tons, bound uom Sydney," Wc-. s,',ticked ... off Land's End by a German uLmarire. She., subsequently . arrived safely at tij# French port of Havre. .. A squadron of Italian airmen dropped r bombs T On the rsiway line between Trieste and 2fabregi/ «, icterruptivsg communication. They returned unbanned, despite a violent artillery and rifle' fire. ' : ' Batteries along the Porto Coruni Canal seriously damaged the Austrian torpedo . , boat.,Bßo, the destroyer Scharfschuetze, and the light ' cruiser Novaro. There were numerous casualties aboard tTue damaged c ships. .-;.; ® -r, Alter L putting :up an . hour's fight against an Austrian light cruiser and four destroyers, an Italian destroyer was sunk by her crew, owing to the ammunition being exhausted. The enemy cruiser and . a destroyer were afterwards damaged by . an Italian' squadron. Sporting and Athlotics: The ■ Auckland Rugby . League matches on • Saturday • resulted in wins for City, Grafton and Ponsonby. "'" The Waitemata Golf Club's foursomes for men, played on Saturday, was won by H. Bayly and A. H. Patterson. ? The Auckland Rugby football representatives, to play against the Trentham team next Saturday, have been selected. The senior grade matches of the Auckland Hockey Association were won on Saturday by Auckland and University. 'The Auckland Rugby Union's senior grade matches were won by College Rifles, Marist Brothers Old Boys "and Uni- , versity. ; _ Sllhe, match pUy handicap of the Auck•K land .Golf Club was . won by R. O. Gardner, who defeated J; B. Lusk in the final on Saturday. . \ »v-y-- - ■ ' - - J t The .first division matches of the Auckland Football Association played on Saturday were won by EverUra, Y.M.C.A. wd Brotherhood.