NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 1 November 1916, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: Seating accommodation for the convenience of the public is to be placed on Cheltenham Beach. There have been 297 less marriages in Auckland this year to date than in the first 10 months of last year. Departure? from the Port of Auckland during the 10 completed months of this Tear show an excess of 850 over arrival?. A report on an augmented water supply for the North Shore boroughs is being prepared by the chief Government drainage enginee - . The gold returns tor the Auckland district mines last month totalled £60.444. a decrense of £8231, compared with October. I'JlO. Resentment regarding adverse criticism? bv ratepayers was expressed by members of the Peronport Borough Council at last night's meeting. Customs duties collected at the port of Auckland last month totalled £88.775. an increase of £22,318 over the corresponding month of last yc .c. An increase of 85 births and 118 deaths in Auckland is recorded for the 10 completed months of this year, as compared with the same period of last year. Twenty-eight men enrolled in No. 1 group yesterday, and of that number 18 were accepted, six were deferred, and four were rejected as unfit for active service. A telegram from the Minister for D«fencc explaining the position in regard to the discharge of soldiers in hospital was ■ i.-alt with at a meeting of tho Claims Hoard of the Patriotic Association yesterday. The prices proposed to be paid for New Zealand meat by trie Imperial l»overnrnent, under the new arrangement, are considered by -be president of die Auckland branch c; the Xcw Zealand bar hut.-.' Union to he very fair Sew Zealand: Up to the present 227 licenses to export butter have been granted. Hugh Charles Graham was acquitted on » charge of manslaughter at Christchurch. The Medical Boards constituted under the Military Service Act are now readv to undertake their duties. Wii-'iaro R. Cooke, formerly well known in South Island business circles, was found dead in bed at Hokitika. A her nine years of age named Edgar James Bell, son of a soldier on active service, was killed at Waverley through being dragged by a pony. Australia : It is reported that the New South Wales i Cabinet is to be reconstructed on coalition lines. As figures now stand three States have i voted in favour of conscription and three; again st. British and Foreign: A coalition Government is being talked of in Canada. A battle in Abyssinia resulted in the defeat by the Government troops of the forces of the deposed Emperor. The War: The allies continue to make gradual progress towards Monastir. The French hare made further progress on the Somnie front. Russian reinforcements are now reaching trie Transylvanian front. Angry scenes took place when the German Reichstag debated the question of military arrest of civilians. The Kaiser has removed General von Hohenhorn from his position as Prussian Minister for War. A plot, organised by the Austrian authorities in 1915. to " assassinate the Roumanian Premier, has been revealed. The Marina, a steel steamer of 5204 tons, built in 1900, for the Donaldson Line', Glasgow, was sunk by a submarine without warning off the Irish coast. A British aviator has brought down Lieutenant Boelke. Germany's famous airman, who had accounted for more opponents than any other of the enemy's '' riving men. " I