NEWS SUMMAEY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16013, 3 September 1915, Page 4

NEWS SUMMAEY.

Auckland: A proposal to raises £17,000 for road improvements was carried at a poll of ratepayers of the Waiuku town district yesterday.

Distributing business has remained very quiet since the beginning of the week, but daring the nest few days considerable activity 'will result, from the large number of vessels in port.

An inquiry concerning a petition asking that the Avondale Road Board district be constituted a borough was opened before a Royal Commission yesterday.

A satisfactory position was revealed in the affairs of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Sports Protection League, which held its annual meeting yesterday.

No settlement was arrived at in the restaurant employees' dispute, which came before the Conciliation Commissioner yesterday, and the case was passed on to the Arbitration Court.

The Executive Committee of the Auckland \va r Relief and Patriotic Association has decided to ask the bowlers of the Auckland Province to reconsider their decision to raise a large sum of money for the equipment of the convalescent home at Rotorua in view of the need for funds to supply the personal needs of returning wounded.

New Zealand:

A man was kilted at Tatrranga yesterday.

A Wanganui drover was acquitted on a charge of sheep stealing.

The body of Dr. F. C. Batchelor, of Dnnedin, was found yesterday.

Professor von Zedlitz has placed himself unreservedly in the hands of the Victoria College Council.

A discussion on the land and income taxation proposals of the Budget, as they will apply to the town and country residents, took place in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon.

The War:

The German Reichstag has passed a Bill raising the military age to 54.

The Germans are testing on Lake Constance large warplanes carrying 20 men.

French official reports continue to re-, cord violent cannonading, especially in the Argonne.

Grand Admiral yon Tirpita is 31 as the result of overwork, and has been ordered to take a holiday.

The Times correspondent at Rome says a decree has been promulgated regulating the production of ammunition.

Germans in the month of August sank 39 sailing vessels, totalling 2019 tons, and 50 steamships, totalling 81,490 tons.

The Governor of Warsaw has sent 30 Russian bankers to concentration camps for refusing to accept his promissory notes.

Subscriptions for tie first instalment of the Australian war loan, which was fixed nominally - at £5,000,000, have exceeded £13,000,000.

A Salonica report states that within a very short time the Turks will cease hostilities unless the monition situation ' be modified.

It is understood that Germany is willing to afford satisfaction to the United States for the loss of American lives on the Lnsitania.

At the Cardiff conference the miners accepted the settlement, but' 42,000 men toe still idle, on the pretext that the agreement has not been signed.

The crossing of the Niemen at Olita by the enemy, and his advance on Orani, disclose his intention to. isolate the Russian groups at Vilna and Grodno.

American bankers fear a further decline in the rate of exchange, and consequent loss of British orders. There is a renewal of the suggestions of a big allied loan.

The Japanese Ambassador at Rome states that when it is- possible to tell, the world will be astonished at what Japan has done, is doing, and will do for the allies.

Ignatius Lincoln, the self-confessed Hungarian spy, who was formerly a member of the British Parliament, "has been, arrested at New York and charged withj forgery.

Russian rearguards are offering a desperate resistance on & 20-mile front between the Bialowies and Snprase woods in order to afford time for regrouping the forces in the rear.

A noted Russian military writer calculates that a million of the enemy are operating in the Brest Litovsk-Minsk-Bielostok region, 300,000 round Riga, and 600,000 in Galicia.

The Echo de Paris reports that Turkey is violently protesting against Boumania's prohibition of the transport of German munitions, and denounces the attitude of Roumania as unfriendly.

' An series of dynamiting outrages is breaking out in the ammunition and powder plants of the United States. _ German secret agents are organising a reign of terrorism and engineering strikes. ,

The Russian Financial Statement has been submitted to the Duma. It states that .the Government has already borrowed six hundred millions, and would probably ' raise an important loan in the foreign markets shortly.

Importance is attached to a hurriedlycalled meeting of the Cabinet, which was attended by Earl Kitchener and all the leading members. Rumour portends that something will happen on the western front before long.

British newspapers are stressing the significance of the allies' great expenditure on the manufacture of shells, which has been followed by allies' aviators* raids, designed to check the manufacture of the enemy's munitions.

Roumania has informed Austria and Germany that her refusal to permit the transit of munitions to Turkey is due to a desire to maintain strict neutrality, and also to her intimate friendship for Italy which she desires to preserve- \

The United States press believes that TbS^^ 18 los l "° man submarines through the excellence of the British counter-offensive methods that she is now wubng to concede the United States' demands as a way out of the dilemma.

Mffiitary critics attach importance to the Russian successes in Earful ov • The German attack on m^W^ I*'1*' and the Gtrypa Sid at *&£*& P Ug siana from the Roumanian*™?*- Rus - Ao.tn>.G«rau,n **' Fiv6 era! Pfianzer, tS&. *** Gen *

The German Ambassador fa »u •. J States has given an assnrancetfcjf ,& lUid ' will not he sunk by ***»«* warning, and without fiafetffofT,^ th ° batants, provided that tW linL 00 ™- attempt to escape or oSeT^^t'^