NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15964, 8 July 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: Twelve nurses from the Auckland district leave by the hospital ship next Saturday. The Riverina reached Auckland from Sydney yesterday after a voyage lasting nearly six days. The Jubilee Institute for the Blind. Parnell, will complete its 25th year of existence to-morrow. July 9. The work of training the members of the second Maori contingent at Narrow Neck camp is proceeding in a satisfactory manner. Tho Mayor's fund for the equipment of the hospital ship and the relief of sick and wounded soldiers now amounts to £24.699 4s lOd. A total of 225 applications from employers and from women seeking work were dealt with by the women's branch of the Department of Labour during June. As the result of the Trentham-Aurk-land representative Rugby football match the Hospital Ship and Wounded Soldiers' Relief Fund will benefit to the extent of £223 17s Id. A report on the question of securing an adequate water stipplv for the Borough of Takapuna was presented by the borough engineer to the Takapuna Borough Council last night. Work for unemployed has been provided on the Domain improvement scheme by the expenditure to date of £4000 from the Exhibition surplus and £1500 from the Patriotic Fund. The relatives of an Auckland recruit, who died in the Otski Hospital after being removed from Trentham camp, complain that they received no intimation from the authorities that he was ill, the first news received being the telegraphic announcement of Ids death. New Zealand: The price of butter has been raited in Dunedin. The body of a young man named Taylor was found floating in the harbour" at Dunedin yesterday. The shipping space allocated to Auckland by the Overseas Shipping Committee in steamers sailing in August represents 29.000 carcases of meat. The Minister for Defence states that the question of offering a force of seamen from New Zealand as a contribution to the Imperial Navy is under consideration. The War: There are 1200 wounded Australasians distributed in a score of hospitals in England. The New South Wales Cricket Associaion recommends the abandonment of first-class cricket during the war. Terrific fighting is proceeding on the I'arso Plateau, north of the " Gulf of Trieste. The struTele is developing favourably to the Italians. British postal workers to the number of 26,000 have enlisted, and arrangements have been made to enable the release of a further considerable number. Advices received at Athens state that Field-Marshal Liman von Sanders, the German officer who has been directing the campaign in Gallipoli, has been wounded. Amsterdam reports state that petroleum is scarce in Germany, and that the Government is forcing three of the leading companies to sign a contract not to supply private consumers. Sir lan Hamilton's report states that the losses, exclusive of French, to May 5 were 177 officers and 1990 men killed, 412 officers and 7807 men wounded, and 13 officers and 3580 men missing.

An Alsatian declares that the Germans have a second line of fortifications midway between the Yosijes and the Rhine, running the entire length of Alsace, which 13 defended by 250.000 Landsturm troops.

A Petrcsrad message states that the German offensive east of Krasnik was stopped by a blow on the German flank on the heights north- -arest of the Wilkolaz, where 2000 Germans were made prisoners and 2000 were killed.

It is reported that the Germans are. constructing immense defensive works in Upper Alsace. They are apparently designed to render the positions practically impregnable, thus liberating troops for an offensive elsewhere.

Sir John French states that since his last report the situation is unchanged. Fighting mainly consists of confused artillery duels, a " feature of which is the enemy's employment of a large quantity of gas shells, particularly near Ypres.

Larl St. Aldwyn expressed disappointment that the British Civil Service Estimates did not show a great reduction. Out of nearby £1.300,000,000 of war expenditure only £68.000,000 was being raised by taxation. Wo were deliberately casting the whole burden of the war on our successors.