NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16129, 18 January 1916, Page 4

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland; Sixty-six more recruit? left Auckland for Tream yesterday. A prominent Maori in the Bot-orua district wa s drowned at Okere ou Sunday. 'lb? new freezing works at Horotiu were brought into operation yesterday. Additional sp'ice f<>r frozen meat may bo allotted U. Auckland in this month's steamers. An alteration in the date- of the next "■■ool sate at Auckland is necessitated by the lack oi shipping space. A very satisfactory report on the- city -.•ater supply hue. been received by the Mayor from the waterworks engineer. An appeal is bring made by the Salvation Arjnv towards the cost, estimated at £2000, of" establishing a homo in Auckland for girls orphaned by the war. A- boatman named William Ansroir.be, "mt/lcjed by the Auckland Harbour Board, was killed vesk-rdav by a fall on the Queen's Wharf caused through the. slipping . i a ladder. i he final realisation of the results of the recent Patriotic Q\i-on Carnival is bain;,' delaved by the tardiness of some of the candidates"' committees in warding their bj'tance-iheets. New Zealand: John Bell ShellxHirno. aged 67. was burned to death at Petono ye.-terday. ' An-!-.bishop C'erretti, Papal Delegate to Australasia, ' arrived at Wellington"yesterday. The North Island last week registered 76 per rent, of the total registered for active service. Payments for meat for the Imperial Board of Trade amount to £6,480,595, and for cheese £244,286. A man was fined £25, in default one month's imprisonment, for illicit liquorselling at Wellington. The ballot for the secretaryship of the Federated Seamen's Union resulted in the election of Mr. W. T. Young. The Dunedin wool sales have been postponed indefinitely owing to the uncertainty as to the provision of shipping space. The Defence Minister stated that only a limited number of transfers from the New Zealand forces to Imperial regiments could be allowed. The Otago Patriotic Association decided to inform the Minister that patriotic funds should not be used for institutions under Government control. • The Hillside railway workshops employees resolved that the Government should take possession of and organise all the men, industries and wealth of the Dominion. The War: . Montenegro has decided not to make a separata peace. The resumption of recruiting in England ha* "drawn a big response. The Russians ■ have made progress in the Caucasus and have occupied ! Kanvagan. . \ The Servian Army s being transferred to Salonika. The Italians have the Albanian situation in hand. The British have made an important advance in Mesopotamia. The Turks retreated after an all-day battle. The situation on the Eastern front is unchanged. The enemy losses on the Bukovina front were very heavy. The neutral States are said to be befriending Belgium, and have made a demand for the liberation of the country. The question of the care of disabled soldiers is receiving attention in Britain It is proposed to put many men on farms. The German fleet left its anchorage in KeiT Canal and made three sorties in December within the protection of its mine fields. It made no effort to find the British fleet. A neutral correspondent* states that everywhere, in Germany he was struck with the despondent " condition of the people. They were taxed and" underfed, and found no joy in victories.