NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16214, 27 April 1916, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

V 'I Auckland; ' >y ' '"•!Sifly-Me-'aeii offered • themselves for fcctiv© service yesterday, 39 of whom were fcccoptcd. 1 The formal opening of the new Auckland Gramma* School by the -Governor took Jilaco yesterday afternoon. A satisfactory report on the work of the Onehunga Recruiting 'Committee was sub- . mitted yesterday to the Dofen.ce Minister. An Austrian named Matthew Andrew Ferri was arrested yesterday and handed over to the military 'authorities for internment- . ~ Five cases of infantile paralysis, all from Hie country, have been reported during the past week. It is three weeks since a case was notified in the city. The election of members of the Epsom fend One-tree Hill Road Boards, and the Eden County representatives on the Hospital Board took placo yesterday. Rua will be charged at Rotorua. to-day \ritii counselling murder of several policemen." Five of his followers are also to be charged with offences against the police. Wew Zealand: The Returned Soldiers' Department has dealt with 1934 soldiers. The Federated Timberworkers are holding ft conference in Duncdin. General Sir Alexander Godley suggests that no nurses bo sent to Egypt at prepent. The Hon. W. Fraser stated that some Eien now employed at Otira would have to 0 discharged, but temporarily only. The proposed visit to England of representatives of the New Zealand Parliament is to bo of a strictly business character. The Right Hon. W. F. Massey stated Yesterday that tho huge majority of the Irish would prove their intense loyalty before the trouble at Dublin went far. British and Foreign: Th« Cabinet recently formed _in China proposes to carry on the administration until a new constitution can he arranged. The War: Five Zeppelins participated in Monday's raid on the East Coast of England. Since she declared war on Austria, Italy 'ha* Occupied 780' square miles of enemy territory. • The .Germans have unsuccessfully renewed their attacks on Mort Homme Hill, y.est of Verdun. "it is reported from a neutral source 'that the. British fleet has bombarded Zeebrugjo Harbour. l '- mi ■-*—. . . The secret session of the British Parliament for the discussion of the recruiting situation has commenced. The German press is publishing disfcttei accounts of the recent Zeppelin raids on English coast towns. , An unsuccessful attack on the British fceaport town of Lowestoft was made by a German raiding squadron on Monday. British and Belgian aviators hive suet«j'sfully. raided a German ' aerodrome )«i.'.r Ostend. Two enemy aeroplanes were! destroyed. ■'■* . . ■ tl Eight British aeroplanes dropped bombs feu .Monday last'on ; the village of Katia, ea*l of the ' Suez. Canal, which was recently occupied by the Turks. .- ♦;.„>•.>*;.»,,• :_'^—-, ... • i • J" •■ -; - Serious rioting is reported from Dublin, [presumably : «wing to the recent failure ■f. by the Germans to . land arms and '--- ' ammunition -in ..Ireland. The Sinn Fein is stated 1 to; bi implicated in the outbreak -: ; ; . < The British . Independent Labour Con- •',", \ ference at Newcastle has' passed a reso- . -..-.' lution approving of efforts being made to : induce the [various Governments to issue V > statements, as to ..the terms on which .»;, 'they are. prepared to make peace.