NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

■■:.-■——."..'* .. ■ Auckland: '". __ Oyster-pickers were fined at tie Police Court yesterday. A milkman was fined £5 for watering milk at Taumaronui. ' The Maori contingent leaves Auckland for Wellington on Friday nest. The famishing of the Auckland Soldiers* Club" is now practically completed. Twenty-five men -were passed as medically fit "for the reinforcements yesterday. A letter from a prisoner in Constanti- . nople, Private T. H. Burgess, has been received in Auckland. The Auckland Chamber of Commerce ' yesterday passed a motion declaring that a tax on petrol and kerosene -was undesirable. The resignation of Mr. Robert Burns i from the presidency of the Auckland i Chamber of Commerce was accepted with ! regret yesterday. J Sly grog-sellers were fined £50 and ] <~osts at Taurnaranci yesterdav. A man ' who introduced liquor into a kainca-was fined £10. The hospital train containing the wounded • soldiers returning to Auckland is expected to arrive in Auckland to-mor-iow afternoon. An appeal has been made to bowlers to support the local patriotic fund rather than raise a special fund to establish a convalescent home at Rot-orua. New Zealand: The House of Representatives passed the Auckland City Empowering Bill A death from cerebro-spinal meningitis occurred at Trent-ham on Thursday night. The Arbitration Court declined to make substantial alterations in the Wellington soft goods assistants* award. - A widow was awarded £600 campensa-' tion. for the death of her husband through an accident at Wanganni. The miners' conference at- Christaharch passed a resolution condemning the j - National Registration Bill. Final deposit* for the race between j Webb and Hannan for the sculling cham- I pionship of New Zealand were paid ves- # terdayv *>i>— . _ The Riverina was disabled 25 miles from. Lyttelton Heads on Thursday night and retained to port. She was "expected to leave for Wellington last night. The War : _ It is reported that, the Premier of Greece has -arranged that Servi*, Ronmania, Bul- . garia-- Greece shall hold a conference in Salonika. . > An Austrian communique states that the Austrians have captured the fortress of. Jhibno, . breaking the Russian front north of Olyka. The German press is hinting that Ger- I Joany must avoid a conflict with America I in order to devote the whole of her at- I tention to the Balkans.

The "Australian Trade Commissioner in ; the East states thai shipments of lead from i New South Wales -.to Tladivostock have been arranged, and the Business -will probablj- be an extensive one. It is learned from an authoritative source that the Sultan has sent an urgent demand for the Kaiser's help, declaring that the {Torts are unable to hold out longer in Gallipoli. * s - ' ~ At the" Trade Union Congress at Bris- .*.?! Slr^iaoyd- George stated that munition work was being, hampered. The rraaeJßßery was not being fullv used and 200,08} -workers were t needed.* ~ The. correspondent at IGtylene of the London Daily Telegraph gives horrible details of the massacres of Armenians in —Asia Minor. He says it is the fixed Turkish policy ;to exterminate the Armenian population. ' The Russian resistance in fee government of Volbynia toorth of Galicda) and in East Galicia is causing great anxiety in . Berlin, the authorities fearing that they Trill be unable to give the Turks assistance in time." x . Reuters correspondent at Washington reports that the United States Government has requested Austria to recall her Ambassador, owing to his propaganda to inaugurate" strikes in American ammunition factories. --R Js.stated in relation to Austria and Germany putting out peace feelers, that it "■ impossible *° further hide the truth that cholera and typhus are raging in the Central Empires. They have grown to alarming proportions. A Dutch paper states that during the recent, bombardment of Zeebrugge *y the Bnush fleet 40 P^ 3ooß were kffled and 100 wounded. The bombardment destroyed the port for submarines, together with two submarines.