NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15932, 1 June 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

i Auckland: Over 100 recruits will bo presented for medical damnation this morning. The Auckland Belgian Relief Fund now totals £60,412 3s lid. The Auckland sitting* of the Arbitration Court commence to-morrow. A new railway time-table will come into force in the Auckland district today. A total of £404 17s 2d has been subscr'bed to the Herald Servian Relief Fund. Departures from the Port of Auckland during last month totalled 1215, exceeding arrivals by 624, The annual conference of managers of I the dairy factories in the North Auckland I district was held yesterday. ! A. contribution of £450 has been voted | to thn Hospital Ship Fund by the directors J of the, Auckland Building Society. I . I The young Maori, Hongi Kobi, found! guilty of rape, was sentenced yesterday to i five years' imprisonment, with hard labour. The gold returns to hand from the mines | fn the Auckland Province for the month I of Mav represented a total of £65,302! 12s 3d.' j Contributions to the Mayor's Fund for equipping the hospital ship and the future | tare of sick and wounded soldiers now . total £6938. ! The Supreme Court was occupied ; throughout yesterday in hearing a charge • of obscene language preferred against a ! waterside worker. 1 The eighty -eighth dividerd. of Is per ' share for the quarter, wil be paid to shareholders in the Waihi Gold Mining Company, Ltd., to-day. j A total of £t 207 lias been subscribed I to the Hr.KALn fund for the equipment of j the hospital shi)> and the future care of sick and wounded New Zealand soldiers. j A sentence of one year's imprisonment, j with hard labour, was imposed on Charles Fletcher Jackson, a Norfolk Islander, . found guilty in the Supreme Court of com ; men asfault. ' Births iu Auckland lost month totalled 290. deaths 151. and marriages 139, an incre.-.eo of 28 births and of 30 deaths, and a decrea-o of 28 marriages as compared with May, ISI4. Customs duties collected at the Port of Auckland last month totalled £48,313 as compared with £66.214 in May, 1914, a'■ 1 decrease of £]7,901. Beer "dutv paid ' totalled £1939, a decrease of £263 compared with May of last year. New Zealand: A general rise in the price of meat is anticipated in Christchureh. There are now 7000 men at Trentham. This strength will be maintained frr a period of about four months. The membership of the National Provident Fund continues to increase. The amount to the credit of the land is now approaching £60,000. The Government is proposing to issue certificates to men who have volunteered for service, but have been rejected, owing to being medically unfit. An -old man. named Daniel O'Brien, was found burned to death in the.remains of the hut in which he lived in the St. Andrew's district. Ttmaru. V. The War; The Commonwealth Defence Department is inviting tenders for the salving of the Emden. A' number of Ministerial appointments ■ ' in the British Government have be°n • announced. ♦ Upwards of 1000 Austrian and German women and children have been repatriated from Great Britain. ' The Times'. correspondent with t'te British headquarters in France gays the army is full of confidence. Mr. Asquith says that the urgency of the case justified the recent changes made in the Home Government. A Dutch newspaper considers that the annexation of Belgium by Germany would eaten the independence of Holland. Of the Fiji Contingent in Belgium, six were killed in action, three died of wounds, and 12 were wounded out of 43 in th'j trenches. A French aviator, in a duel in the air, shot and killed Lieutenant von Buf low, who, it is believed, was a relative of tho ex-Chancelltir of Germany. It is reported that tire question of peace has been discussed 'by the Young Turks, who considered that a prolongation of the struggle promised no success. Mr. Arthur Henderson, Leader of the British Labour Party, has appealed to all trade unions to give their members the greatest latitude in order to secure a iiufficient output of munitions. The Japanese Minister for Marine has cabled to* Mr. Winston Churchill, late First Lord of the Admiralty, thanking him for his cordiality towards the Japanese Navy during his Admiralty career. Mr. Churchill, in reply, said he hoped that the. comradeship between the two fleets would continue, ■ I 1