NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16338, 19 September 1916, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: Twenty-four men volunteere3 In Auckland yesterday. Eleven were accepted. The fund for the equipment of a children's hospital has now reached a total of £1103. Charges of conspiracy again occupied the attention of the Supreme Court yesterday. The question of the width of tyres on vehicles was considered by the Mount Albert and Mount Eden Borough Councils last night. The Auckland military district's quota for the twenty-first rcinforcemont to tho New Zealand Expeditionary Force will leave for the training camps to-day. New Zealand: A fire occurred on Sunday morning in a diaper's shop at Invercargill. Five Chinese were fined £50 each at Wellington on charges of playing pakapoo. The Court of Inquiry into the loss of the steamer Storm bird exonerate! the master and pilot. The Recruiting Board yesterday came to decisions concerning the appointment of Military Servico Boards. The War Pensions Board to date has granted pensions of an annual value of £190.954. an average of £48. Surgeon-General Henderson states that the reports regarding the health of tho men in camp are satisfactory. A sentence of threo months' imprisonment was passed on the Syrian who in Dunedin falsely represented himself as a doctor who could cure rheumatism. British and Foreign: It is stated that unless certain information is given by the British Government united labour action wll be taken for a uniform advance of wages. The War: The French gained further important successes in the Somme region on Sunday. The new tvpe of armoured car used by the British has proved of the greatest utility. The Spanish Government lias vigorously protested to Germany against tho sinking juf three Spanish vessels last weekThe British Board of Trade is inaugurating a campaign to form a world-wido trade combination against Germany. With two exceptions the members of the new Greek Cabinet are strongly opposed to the policy of M. Venizelos. A correspondent states that the Russians and Roumanians are retiring in the Dobrudja to strong positions about ten miles south of the Constanza-Bucharest railway. Sweden's reply to the allies' Note protesting" against Sweden's measures for regulating,. the navigation of territorial •■waters in the Baltic strongly disputes tie charges of partiality.