NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16317, 25 August 1916, Page 4

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland t Thirty men volunteered ' .in Auckland -v' yesterday. ' Twelve were s accepted. i —— ■. .A,' conciliation council arrived at an -'S agreement in the brewers'- employees' dis- ' _ pute yesterday. A statement regarding the progress of the Jermyn Street improvement scheme was made by the Mayor yesterday. The City Council has decided to repudiate all liability in connection with the recent subsidence *in Durham Street. A contract for the erection of the Domain winter garden was provisionally let | ' last night by the City Council, at £3268. A reply to the recent criticism.*: regard- j ing the Auckland roads was made by the Mayor at last night's meeting of the City Council. x The decision of the City Recruiting Committee to continue its efforts at the central city station was approved . last night by the City Council. In the Supremo Court yesterday the jury awarded £50, and £33 9s special damages, to the plaintiff in an action arising out of a motor-car mishap at Remuera. A case involving a dispute over payment of money in connection with the building of the Grand Theatre, Queen , Street, was commenced in the Supreme Court yesterday. ■ 'A request from the Waitemata County Council for a contribution of £100 towards the rebuilding of the Huia Bridge was referred by the City Council last night to the Works* Committee. The Mayor stated at last night's meeting of the City Council that a second trawler was being sought in Australia, with the view to purchase, but only after all vessels- in New Zealand which were for sale had been inspected and reported to be unsuitable. Anonymous correspondents having suggested to the Mayor, Mr. J. H. Gunson, that.it is his duty to go to the: front, the whole of the members of the City Council - signed and presented to him, at last night's meeting of the council, a memorandum .. of sympathy and of protest against such . treatment. New Zealand: Bishop W. L. Williams, formerly Bishop of Waiapu, died last night. A woman was severely burned at Te Araroa through her clothes catching fire. The Dominion shortage for the twentieth reinforcements is 304, the Auckland deficiency being 77. • . General Godley, in a letter to the Minster for Defence, states that the New Zealanders . in hospital in England are well cared for. * The Minister for Education stated yes- - terday . that better provision than at pre.sent exists is required for dealing with " cases of feeble-minded children. r : British and Foreign: i ~ An expedition which left the United States in 1913 to search for Crocker Land has returned. . -. r . •It is stated that "Villa,' the ' Mexican bandit, who was reported to be dead, ii in-command of a small force. The Wax: , The British have , captured furthei trenches south of Thiepval. . An Albanian detachment has arrived al Salonika to join the allied army. It is reported that for a week Lemberf was in a state of volution. The Servians are making a determined - resistance against the Bulgarians. - -'A brilliant French attack north of Verdun resulted in a substantial gain. - The .Turkish, initiative on the Caucasus - front and in Persia is . on . the verge of collapse. 4 • yM'.'s -'V:.-• Portuguese workmen over the age of 32 are taking up work in. French munition ■ factories,. s . . - The Russians have repulsed enemy at- <<•;'. tacks south of Brodv and captured heights r.i . near the source of the River Pruth.