NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16023, 15 September 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland:

Twenty-six men were passed as medically fit for the reinforcements yesterday.

' The Mayor's Fund for the relief of sick" and wounded soldier now amounts to £49,639 17s Id.

Free classes of instruction in invalid cookery are being arranged by the Auckland Education Board.

The Board of Education is considering the question of obtaining a larger playing area, at the Parncll school.

The Harbour Board engineer has been instructed to report on the provision of a shelter shed at the Stanley Bay Wharf.

The M&nukau County Council yesterday decided to have plans and specifications prepared for the renewal of bridges in the county.

The amalgamation of the Eden Terrace Road District with the city has been approved, and will be brought into operation probably on October 1.

The picture " Cape Foulwind" has been presented to the Art Gallery by Mr. C. N. Worsley, on condition that £75 is subscribed to the Patriotic Fund.

The inquest concerning the death of William Robert Huff, who lost his life as a result of injuries received in an explosion on the cutter Rosalie on August 21, was held yesterday.

The Auckland Bowling Club has decided not to contribute towards the Rotorua convalescent home for soldiers but instead to raise a fund to be handed over to the Auckland Patriotic and War Relief Association.

New Zealand:

A death from cerebrospinal meningitis is reported from Trentham.

The Christchnrch City Council advocates a censorship of moving pictures.

A letter from headquarters at Gallipoli states that fully-trained men are required.

The consideration of the Estimates was resinned in the House of Representatives last evening.

' A meeting of Poverty Bay farmers passed resolutions adverse to the commandeering of frozen meat.

Several applications ■under the War Pensions Act were considered at a meeting of the Pensions Board yesterday.

The Minister for Defence says he sees no reason to change the present system of enlistment as regards the age requirements.

The increased scale of railway fares and freights, announced in the Financial Statement, will be brought into operation next Sunday.

__. The sick and wounded soldiers detained in Wellington owing to the trouble with the firemen on the Tahiti were sent South by the ordinary steamers yesterday.^

The War:

The appeal made by Mr. Lloyd George in his preface to his collected war speeches | '-,;■ is the political sensation of the day.

A French submarine torpedoed a group of Austrian torpedo-boats in the middle of the Adriatic, seriously damaging one-

The Federal Minister for Defence, Mr. G. F. Pearce, states that the authorities are able to equip all the men -who offer. •

**v"Armenians in Geneva have issued an appeal to the civilised •world to make an effort to save tie remnants of a martyr people.

Eight hundred thousand Armenians have been deported from cities in Asia Minor to the interior of Turkey. Hardly a third reach their destination.

- The 1 Hungarians are working day and night fortifying the Roumanian frontier. Trenches are being constructed only 300 yds from the Roumanian frontier.

__■_, The correspondent of the London Times ■ km. r the "Colore- front says the Aostrians -are 3 being slowly pushed back, but lines upon lines of barriers remain.

The Councils of the Chamber of Commerce and tile Employers' Federation have both, decided to support , the Australian Universal Service League's platform.

The positions held by the Austrians have .enabled'them to adopt a vessel containing an inflammable liquid which is rolled down on the Italian trenches.

A Belgian officer states that the army is more numerous and is better armed than at the outbreak of the war. despite the occupation of the country hv the Germans.

Austria is preparing to mobilise boys of 16 to receive a coarse of military tuition so that they will be ready to be embodied in the active army should the necessity arise.

The Australian Defence authorities state that double the usual number of reinforcements are being despatched. The quota will be raised in November from 5000 to 6000 monthly.

.Eight parties., representing the workmen , employed in the munition areas in * "England, will pay a four-days* visit to j France to see the imperative necessity, of accelerating the output-. $..' -•• It"is understood that Mr. Balfour is against, compulsion. • Sir. Bonar Law, Sir. Walter Long, and Mr. Austen Chamberlain favour it. Lord Kitchener is not committed to either policy. The executive of the Xew York-Dockers* Union has revealed to the United States Government a plot by which the Germans were to spend over £200,000 in an attempt to induce dockers to strike. An Athens correspondent reports that Turkish official sources state the higher German command has notified Berlin that the Turkish Army cannot continue its resistance beyond September 25. The executive of the National Union of Railwaymen has commenced a conference with the Swansea railwaymen. who ask for an immediate advance of 10s a week, exclusive of the war bonus. The commissioners sent from Australia to Esrypt to inquire into the conduct of the lied Cross have cabled asking for six business men capable of handling goods and four men suitable for the inquiry department. _ The Pall Mall Gazette says :—" There is an impression in political" circles that w., ,m , pendin &- Ifc is evident that TIT* 8 ? has P lum fw comthe Cabinet