NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16035, 29 September 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: The Hebatjb "War Fund now amounts to £15,570 17s sd. The ''coronation" of the queen of the carnival at Whangarei was a brilliant spectacle. A fine of £5 was inflicted yesterday on a young man charged with following a young lady in the streets. Mr. G. R. Hutchinson has been granted six months' leave of absence from the Harbour Board on account of his going to the front. The Auckland Harbour Board yesterday approved the arrangements made with the Railway Department regarding the eastern outlet.

A poll of the ratepayers of the Epsom road district on a proposal to raise a loan of £75,000 for road works will be taken on November 10.

A number of men will leave Auckland for Palmerston North by this evening's Main Trunk train to complete Auckland's "quota of the Field Ambulance reinforcement draft.

The Eden Terrace Road Board, at a meeting last evening, resolved to ask the Government to give effect as soon as possible to the decision to merge the district in the city.

In connection with the queen carnival it has been decided to merge "the suburbs and Red Cross croup with the soldiers' group, Mrs. Waflingtord being the joint candidate. Mrs. R. F. Bollard has been chosen as the South Auckland candidate.

A medical examination of recruits for the reinforcements of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force was held yesterday, when 65 men were examined. Thirtyeight were passed as fit and 17 either deferred or declared unfit for active service.

New Zealand:

A farm labourer died in a fit at Rangiotu yesterday.

The provisions of the Bill legalising patriotic lotteries have been published.

The Legion of Frontiersmen offers a body of men 500 strong for active service.

> Canterbury College Board of Governors has adopted proposals for assisting the orphans of soldiers. New Zealand imported from Germany during the first seven months of 1914 £1,015,000 worth of goods. The War: Ilia Russians have captured several fortified villages in the Yiina district. The BiassJaaa are everywhere advancing between Polesie and the Roumanian frontier. Permission has been granted to French soldiers in the trenches to return to their farms at seed time. , ' Berlin "papers describe the progress-* of; fortification works preparatory to a fresh offensive 'against Servia.' ! \ /., Nearly 3000 men, 18 pons, and 32 I »' machine-guns have been '■. captured by the | . British during the last .few days- . :' The allies*: offensive east of Loos and east of Sonchez continues. The Germans lost heavily in counter-attacks at HaHuch. f. a -The -French : Minister for War has put at. the disposal ;,of farmers, territorial "troops men from the depots unfit for the firing line." :~ '■■." - ■■ ■. - ■'•■..■„■ . The *' Germans claim "to have captured another position south-west ,of , Dvinsk,. taking 1300 prisoners. ' Fighting is proceeding along the entire front. 'The Corriere della Sera 4 learns from Bucharest that the Italian campaign is greatly demoralising the -Hungarians. New recruits are deserting en masse.

The Rotterdam correspondent of tie London Daily Telegraph Bays the German general staff in ; Berlin* is determined to make one more great effort in the west. ,V*Vi'*S*3|# V. ■■■ ■ • •■•■■■< '•■ •-: v./.. The increasing intensity of the German, efforts near Dvrask \ indicates the importance the enemy ? attaches to the capture of this city, and the general Dvina line. The German Ambassador at Washington declares that "all reports of Armenian atrocities are pore invention. No atrocities have been committed by the Turks. A- French newspaper declares that the .Opposition parties in Bulgaria have abandoned the "struggle for neutrality, and wflj allow the Government to act as" it pleases. . The abilitv of the Russians to develop a hurricane' fire at Novo Alexandrovsk is » gratifying proof that the defenders of Dvmsk are well equipped with ammunition. •■-*-- >"■ The new French offensive is being continued in the Champagne, where fighting continues along the whole front. The gams have been maintained, and new German positions captured. The allies have informed Greece that in the event of .an attack upon Servia and Greece the allies will lend a fullv,equipped force, and will also render necessary financial assistance.

The Russian territorial gains in the Kovel region since early in September, are estimated at 70 miles. The offensive in Volhynia and the Galician theatre has countered von Mackensen's advance.

An offer was made by the associated racing clubs in New South Wales to the Government to contribute £200 for each of the 72 days of racing held annually to the Patriotic Fund provided that the racing days were not curtailed.