NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16204, 14 April 1916, Page 4

NEWS SUMMARY.

/;'/ HIATsv.-i • A miner named Samuel Marsden, aged •' 68, dropped dead at Kiripaki from heart ' .#•£"; disease„ ' it .* "'* ■'"•• 'ST. The total amount subscribed to the Sick nnd Wounded Soldiers' Fund to date is £352,934 'la 4d. " "" o- An elderly Maori named Tape Te Wae Wae was . committed yesterday to. the Supremo Court for- sentence on three '»■ charges for forgery. . ->•• ... Tin weekly progress return issued yesterday by the Defence authorities indicates that infantry are wanted for the 16th reinforcement draft. Eighty recruits left Auckland yesterday to make up the district's shortages in tho 15th reinforcements to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. An inquest touching the death of Mr. Frank Donoghue, a workman who was injured at Jermyn Street on Monday nnd who afterwards died, was opened yesterday. - A total of 23 men enlisted at the city recruiting station yteterday. Of that number eight were accepted, 12 wore deferred, and three were rejected as unfit for active 6ervice. Hew Zealand: '.*:;' ~. ; Nelson tomato-growers complain of tho Competition of fruit from Rarotonga. New Zealand products entered for export last week were valued at £242,363. As the outcome, of tho shortage of ships, flaxmills In the Manawatu district will be closed for onp month. ;. Bail way, passes available for thrue weeks _„, |will be issued to returned and discharged soldiers on application. • — " The. Rev. J. D. Wilson, a Presbyterian minister .in tho Oamaru district, has joined jtho reinforcements as a combatant. The" New ! Zealand ' Records Office at tub •.headquarters'.. of the Mediterranean Expeditionary; Force has been instructed to.supply the Minister for Defence with particulars' of New Zealand soldiers buried at*Lte&fii6s.' K '" " ; :. Australian;. -. ::; - : .. % • The'Tasmanian • Government has re'""T signed:" ';'" ■ -- •' • Legislative .Council has thrown out the Sydney harbour bridge scheme. The High Court of New South Wales has declared gas to bo a " necessary comity-" > ;, _ Further evidence was given by tho Minister for Education" yesterday before the ' ... New South Wales Petrol Scheme Commission.' ;»!:*.: -/• ••/ ..--• British and Foreign: _ Another province of China has declared ; its independence. *" ' Mr.'Richard Harding Davis); the Ameri- *' ■ ■ tan war correspondent, novelist, send play- '••' ' wijght,Aa3 died. ~\' j^i/h; . S ""Tie'jchances of refloating'the'steamer Ha* '"afira, ashore in Table Bay,' are regard {as very doubtful. '.'' .ft" • ; A, truce has been declared in China, in order that the Government and tho revolutionaries may discuss terms. The German War Minister declares that Inestimable and complete victory is as- ,--• I |mrQd I fqr,.GeOTany,., „,,„-...,„„ s. '' ' . - •' ' 'The mterpretation of'the'"term "destruction .Prussian militarism" by Mr. ~ . Asqnith has been the subject of wide «• comment, jgj Ifrns ■„ .. ,' '•] -.The annual report of the North German Lloyd states that J 'five of its ships have , > ... teen' captured and five requisitioned by . 'Australia, jj j -. ~■*. ,' The French Socialist Party has'decided ,- i fe continue its efforts to safeguard France and restore the independence :cf. -Belgium ,-s, ?j Jtod.-Servia, :iJa&cu ' a ..... (S DLscussioa of post-war commercial ques- :;,,,' taoris'ie, 7 in the opinion of General Botha, . ."~ premature until Germany has "received a * '' hiding." . -.- The Prime Minister of! AustrcJia is charged by German newspapers with plotting a new federation of tho rest of the Empire excluding England. ' The ' required ' assurances ' having been given by the French Government, the armed steamer Vulcain has been granted ■ v clearance by the American authorities. A section of the Unionist Parly propose, to raise the general compulsion question _. in the House of Commons. Notice of ';„.-'/ motion; has i ( been f given ; by. Sir Edward Carson.' -•' " •<• •