News In Brief.

Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 16179, 21 August 1916, Page 1

News In Brief.

Riote have occurred at Schleswi<*Holstein. ° Fighting continues on Bothmer't fronts. Norway has prohibited the export offish. . • Italians raided Vailbiora, takin* * prisoners. | Allies broke the Bulgarian attack in Moglenska valley. J Austrian losses for June and July Have been 830,000. j-;. , Russians engaged . considerable Tuijrish forces in Persia. Russians continue their advance ia the vicinity of Cerezonelo. It is reported the Deutschland has , been sighted off Newfoundland. Over 3,000,000 casualties are now officially admitted by Germany. ! Germans attacked our trenches north-west of Thiaumont work. Generals Lake and Gorringe have been recalled from Mesopotamia.

Uren outpointed Fritz Holland for the welter weig&t championship. On tKe ?.eft of the Meuse two German grenade attacks were'made. All the village 6f Fleury is now ours, despite two counter attacks. Germans made attempts to recapture Fleury ,* all attacks were repulied. Enemy on the Zlotalipa front, westward of Podhaice, l-eeumedf the offensive. t „|s rpith of the Somme the enemy continuing his efforts regardless v^t;;? sacrifice. ' . ; 1.:... Arrests in connection with Pruseian grain frauds include high officials • of the Imperial Wheat Office.

With regard to the Arctio explorar tions recently reported, in which 1 Dr. Jenness took part, a Press Association message , states :^ A cablegram has been reoeiv»d by | Mr. G.. L. Jenness, of Low;er Huttv stating that his Son, Dr. Diamond 1 Jenness, is safe. Dr. Jenness was born at Wellington, and educated at Wellington College and Victoria College, where he graduated with, honours in classics, and gained nun.erouß j scholarships. In 1908 he bvent to Oxford, entering Ballio! Coif ge. Hi«work attracted such note /that itt. „. 1911 he wa« selected by the OiforV University Committee of Anthropology to lead the anthropological expedition among the primitive puoples, of Papua, and the valuable worfc. done is yet fresh in the memory of tci!ehtistß. ■' ,' '■' . :. ':, ';■ -' ' ■.['.

A well-known Masterton.' -resident,; who has a penchant fbr fcreetfiiig. * ducks, tells a good story a* his own expense (says the "Ago"). A few days before the poultry ahOw he wa* ! visited by a> neighbour who wished to ! purchase a drake. The visitor war eiyen the pick of the yard, and J»lected a bird for which he, paid 10» 6<L The show came of, *ad this particular drake succeed^. i%*inmng the New Zealand chammonship. Tgs was too much for the breeder. _ H» ,went along and offered the purchaser half a guinea on his barjgaan.,,; That 8 no «ood to me," «aid th 9 proud poasess^r of a New Zeal^"give me two guineas and Ac bird is touts.*' "Do you beuev©*t,''say* the duck fancier, "but I paid.«v»r that two guineas and the drake, is now located in his old quarters, and, from my poiiit of view, is probabiy only really'worth 2« $dV the pnce of a Sunday joint.** y $■