NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15976, 22 July 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: Souvenir stamps are being issued to subscribers to the Botha Testimonial Fund. A eerions accident occurred at the level railway crossing at King Street, Newmarket, yesterday afternoon. The Takapuna Borough Council decided Isst night to support the proposal for the establishment of * a training camp in Auckland. The Mayor's fund for the equipment of the hospital ship and the relief of sick and wound id soldiers now totals £31.275 2s sid. The present industrial position was stited yesterday by the president of the Auckland Employers' Association, Mr. E. A. Craig, to be grave. Recent awards made by the Arbitration Court were freely criticised yesterday at the annual meeting of the Auckland Employers' Assxiiation. The principle of trade within the Empire was supported by the president of ihe Auckland Employers' Association. Mr. E. A. Craig, at yesterday's annual meeting.

For the period ended July 10. the Y\'aihi Grand Junction Gold Company, Limited, crushed and treated 10,090 tons of ore for a yield of bullion valued fit £16.146 7s sd. * New Zealand: Two more men belonging to the troops j in training, have died of pneumonia and jmeasles. ! There has been very bad -weather in the South, and floods arc reported from the west coast. i No matter of outstanding importance j ■was discussed in tho House during jester- 1 day afternoon and evening. | It is understood that the Opposition Party has rejected the coalition proposals made by the Government Party, hut that negotiations have not yet beon filially broken off. The War: The "Melbourne District Footballers' Association has disbanded till the end of the 'war. . Tie German Humanity League has issued a manifesto condemning the German -war party. A giant Russian aeroplane successfully engaged three German machines and seriously damaged one of them. Mr. Stephen Washburn considers that the army protecting Warsaw is the best Unssia has ever placed in the field. " 'Aboard the Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi, sunk by an Austrian submarine, were the celebrated gold swords presented to Garibaldi. - The Times' correspondent at Washington says that public irritation is growing on account of the activities of German spies and agents. An official German communique states: -—" Our troops south of the Vistula advanced as far as Blonie and Grodzisk. within 20 miles of Warsaw." Several large cruisers and torpedo boats and transports were observed trom Gothland, in the Baltic, steaming north. It is supposed that the squadron is German. Mr. Asquith, in the House of Commons, moved for a credit of £150,000,000 to meet war expenditure, making a total ot £1,012,000,000 since the outbreak of the war. There is increasing confidence in Petro--grad .tlia.t .the menace from the south :s I decreasing, while threats against Warsaw! from -the'-north are not immediate., says J -a Times correspondent. The Union a number of = garriillerymen who j worked the in the Damaraland campaigtamn order that they may enrol in jjiie Imperial forces-. TV® British Government has furnished " 1 t,be United States with evidence that a - - 1 wealthy German in Detroit is supplying !%-'] money to persons in Windsor, Ontario, for the- destruction of Canadian Government; property. | The Kaiser -has telegraphed to his ; siste the Queen of Greece, that he has paralysed the Russians during the last six months, and that he is about to deliver a coup in the West which would make all Europe tremble. An Austrian official despatch says—i After crossing the Wolitza we advanced : on the enemy's positions on the heights. The A German successes "on the 18th . inst. along the entire front have shaken.jthe enemy's resistance." A Cairo newspaper states that a European who left Constantinople on July 3 reports that there are 50,000 Turkish wounded in Constantinople, besides those J at Adrianople, Smyrna, and the Dar- | danelles and. Marmora ports. The proportion of--killed is high. Earl Cromer stated in the House of Lords that the only way to rehabilitate the finances of England, or any other country, was to carry the war to complete victory, I which would, result in the overthrow of I Kaiserism, and the establishment of real j constitutional government in Germany. I t - ==