NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16026, 18 September 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: Forty-four men were passed as medically fit for the reinforcements yesterday. The new schedule of railway fares and freights will be brought into operation tomorrow. The difficulty in providing a stokehold crew for the steamer Kait-una lias not- yet been settled. The members of the second .Maori Contingent left Auckland for Wellington yesterday afternoon. The thirty-second annual conference of the New Zealand Baptist Union will be opened in Auckland on October 6. The Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution last night supporting the principle of preferential trade within the Empire. A weekly service of intercession, to be held every Wednesday during the war, has been organised by the Evangelist!" Council of the Diocese of Auckland. The continuance of payment 1 under allotment orders made by soldiers, whose deaths have been "reported, was the sublet of recent correspondence between the chairman of the Auckland Soldiers' Relief Committee and the Minister tor Defence. The executive of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic and V\ar iwitet Association will be addressed on Monday evening by Mr. ('. P. Skerrett, K.C., who has played a prominent part- in the movement to secure uniformity in the administration of patriotic funds. New Zealand: A Dominion award governing flourmills has been filed in Wellington. The appointment of a director of physical education is engaging the attention of the Minister. The Minister for Finance yesterday made a statement- regarding the shipment ot kerosene by the Navarino. A little boy died at Dunedin from meningitis, presumably caused through running a pointed stick into his eye. The new postal and telegraphic rates will probably be gazetted next week, and will come into operation immediately. Victoria College Council presented a petition to the House of Representatives protesting against the Alien Teachers Bill

The Prime Minister has promised to take action, if necessary, regarding an increase in the price of butter at Welling- ) ton. The Imperial Government has requested the New Zealand Government to raise an j Engineer Tunnelling Company of 300 or j 400 men. The War: Russia is calling out her territorial repprves. American bankers have already pledged themselves to take up a largo proportion of the Anglo-French loan. Sir E. Grey refused passports to the Independent Labour Party's delegates to j the Peace Conference at Berne. Another thousand operatives have been thrown out of work in. Yorkshire owing to a ' dispute concerning overtime. It is reported that the British submarine E7 has been sunk at the Dardanelles and that" her crew are prisoners. - The number of men killed and wounded ■in the Dardanelles operations totals 87,552, 17,608 having been reported killed. Five German aeroplanes dropped bombs on a refugee encampment in Bessarabia, killing a large number of women and children. " ~ j

. Owing to a dispute regarding the discharge of ap. employee at the Lithgow small arms factory a section of the wortmen have struck. A well-known Anglo-Armenian says the conditions in Constantinople are nearly desperate. The people are convinced that the city is doomed. The Germans claim to have broken the Russian line at Pinsfe. They state that the. Russian attack in the South-eastern theatre has collapsed. The French Government has decided to create a Ministry of Aviation. Since the outbreak of the war the number of French aeroplanes has been increased seven times. A Turkish corporal who deserted reports that the Turks are suffering from hunger as the _ result of the activity of British submarines in the Sea of Marmora. All traffic has ceased. A French officer who has been invalided from the Dardanelles to ■ Salonika states that the allies are progressing. He is confident that Constantinople will be taken before the end of September. The Commonwealth war correspondent Bays that the arrival of the eighth contingent from Australia enabled part of the Australians, after 19 continuous weeks under fire in the trenches, to obtain a little relief.