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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9822, 23 July 1900, Page 7

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[per press association.] Auckland, Last night. An Austrian named Stripe Francovich attempted suicide in an Austrian boarding house to-day. Some of the other Austrian boarders heard him smash a pane of glass in the door of his bedroom, and then saAV him rush into the passage with a razor in his jhand arid his arm covered with blood. His wiodpipe Avas partially severed, but he was able to talk. He was taken to the hospital. He had recently been ailing, and his behavior was eccentric. The effects of the recent heavy rain caused considerable misgivings amongst the natives at Whakarewarewa, near Rotorua. About 9 o’clock last night a small area of the sinter formation surrounding a boiling spring near the bridge across the Puarenga stream fell in. The occupants of two whares close by quickly evacuated, and could not be induced to return. It was noticed for days that the ground by the various small fissures indicated a subsidence, and there is now evidence that a further area may be affected, as large surface cracks are noticeable. A sharp shock of earthquake Avas noticed on Thursday afternoon. Wellington, Last night. A wharf laborer named John Hunter, aged 65, Avas found dead in his bed yesterday. There is no reason to suppose suspicious circumstances. At the Arbitration Court, during the hearing of the coachAvorkers’ case (in which decision was reserA r ed) the Judge said the incompetent Avorkmen phase ;of labor had loomed large during the Court’s sitting in various parts of the colony. It had so impressed itself upon the Court that members had refused to recognise a class known as improAers. Masters must undertake to teach apprentices their trade. The system which allowed boys to be engaged without indentures was a bad one, and resulted in the production of incompetent workmen. As a result of the conference between the Victoria College Council and members of Parliament from the district affected, a resolution was passed affirming the claim of the College to the Mount Cook site, and a committee was appointed to confer with the Government, consisting of Messrs Guinness, Graham, Hogg, Hal), and MUD, Ms.H.R.