NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16234, 20 May 1916, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland? The amount subscribed ,igfiib9:Hjnykii> .War Fund is, now £21,55, %,,%,, ;.. The„£o«i! ffepJrej&* 7 £ ' "Union has fih£i demaH«fc ; !DC*eaiea wages and shorter htrafe. «•■•' The Board of Trade, which is investigating the causes of the rising cost of Irving, commenced its Auckland sittings yesterday. Thirtv-four men enrolled in the city yesterday. Of that number 19 were accepted, 11 were deferred, and four rejected as unfit for active service. New Zealand: A. Dominion award for the boot trade lias been filed. The House of Representatives yesterday adopted the Addre3.~-in-Reply. Two of the cases under observation as suspected smallpox have been discharged. The reparation allowance has been extended to the illegitimate children of soldiers. The value of New Zealand produce entered for export last week wae £715,063. Australian: Six hundred ironworker? have struck at a Government engineering works "near Sydney. A Hobart Trades Union Congress has passed a motion, calling for the abolition of the office of State Governor. William Joy. who was charged with shooting a ban? accountant, has been acquitted on the ground of insanity.

British and Foreign: Mr. Asqoith has given notice to more a farther credit vote in the House of Commons next week. In giving evidence before the Royal Commission set up to inquire into the Irish revolt, Sir Matthew Nathan stated that the Government remained inactive owing to the fear of alienating the loyalist IrishmenThe War: Three German steamers have been sunk in the Baltic. , The Anzac sector in France ia at present comparatively free from enemy attacks. Daring April the French destroyed 32 German aeroplanes. Their own losses totalled 19. French air squadrons have successfully S raided towns occupied by the enemy north of Verdun. The melting of the ice in the Balti*Sea has. again made it possible for allied submarines to attack German shipping. ... A, column of 'Australasian troops carried out a successful enterprise against Turkish forces in • the vicinity of the Suez Canal. Over 1000 British wounded troops, who . i formed part of the Kui-el-Amara garri- ' son, have been exchanged for Turkish 'prisoners.'