NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16213, 26 April 1916, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: : The War Pensions Board has dealt ■with & claims since it commenced its sittings in Auckland. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Hibernian Society was opened in Auckland yesterday. A motor car rolled over a bank, 20ft high, near Tauranga, the occupants escaping with bruises. The anniversary of Anzac Day was celebrated in tho city and various centres in Die provinco yesterday. There was a mild recruiting boom in the citv yesterday, when 60 men enlisted. Of that*number 25 were accepted. 18 were deferred, and 17 were rejected as unfit for active service.

New Zealand:

The New Zealand Poultry Association's Conference was continued at Wellington yesterday.

The body of a man supposed to be Robert Jackson, of Owaka, was found in Duned'in Harbour yesterday.

The Now Zealand Educational Institute decided to affiliate with the council of ■lie State Servants' Association.

A Commonwealth flag, sent by railway - men at Hornsby, New South Wales, was unfurled at Potent- workshops yesterday.

The system of special < classes for the correction of the physical defects of schoolchildren has been adopted in Wellington.

Australian:

A small loss is shown on the operations of 13 SUite enterprises in New South Wales.

A serious outbreak of fire, resulting in 'damage estimated at £30,000, is reported from Sydney.

A committee appointed by the Federal Government has recommended an insurants schema for the assistance of workers who fall ill.

British and Foreign:

Cotton-spinners in Lancashire are demanding an increase by 10 per cent, in their wages.

A Chinese* transport was sunk by collisicn with a light cruiser in a fog. Of 1000 men fan the transport, only 30 were saved.

A decision that Bacon wrote Shakespere's plays has been given by the Chicago Circuit Court in connection with litigation by William Selig, the motion picture manufacturer.

The War;

The Australian Trades Hall is opposed to conscription.

• A force of 500 Turks was repulsed 15 miles from tie Suez Canal.

Zeppelins appeared off the coast of Norfolk on Monday evening last.

All the French liners arriving at American ports, will in future bo armed.

The number of women engaged in agricultural work in England is increasing.

Further progress has been made by General Smuts' army in German East Africa.

Adrianople was also bombed by the three British seaplanes which, raided Constantinople on April 14 last.

Under pressure from a strong- enemy force the village of Katia, 35 miles from the Suez Canal, has been evacuated by the British.

' An attempt has been made by Germans to land arms and ammunition in Ireland. Sir Roger Casement, who is implicated, has been arrested.

Count' yon, Bemstorff, German Ambassador to the United States, is said to have been involved in the plots which led to the dismissal of Dr. Dumba.

A noted British student of social and economic questions states that the unions will acquiesce in compulsion if they are convinced that victory is impossible without it