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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1018, 10 November 1917, Page 5

Tlie death occurred on Friday at her

residence ju \V anganui of Mrs John Jones, who was predeceased by her husband the previous week. Mrs Jones, was a member ot the Newport family, who arrived in New Zealand in 184-, and landed in Nelson shortly before tho Wairau massacre, in which some of their fellow-passengers perished. Mrs Jones is survived by seven children, 33 grandchildren, 18 great-grand-ohildreu, and one great-great-grandchild.

The second of the two captains who havo commanded 11.M.5. New Zealand since sho was launched has now been promoted .o the rank of Rear-Admiral. Captain John V. E. Green, C.8., A.D.C., was appointed to cammand the ship when Captain Halsey went as Captain of the Fleet to Admiral Jellicoe, in 1915. Ho first went to sea as a midshipman in 11.M.5. Achilles, in which he served in the Egyptain war. lie also saw service as commander of the Pigmy m the China war, in 1900. In the present war Captain Green commanded the Natal until some little time before her destruction. Ho commanded the Now Zealand during tho third of her big actions, the Battle of Jutland, on which occasion he fought the vessel with great skill and gallantry, being mentioned in despatches and receiving the C.8., the Croix d’Ofhcier of the Legion of Honour, and tho Russian order of St. Anne, In- that battle tho New Zealand carried the flag of the Admiral Commanding tho Second Battle Cruiser Squadron.

A Rotterdam correspondent tells the- fob lowing* -jtorv : —GGrinnn tired of life? cincl worrying over the war, decided to commit suicide wont to a chemist and bought enough ovankali to kill a dozen of men He took it, but it was a substitute, and did him no harm. He then bought a rope to hang himself, the rope broke; it was made of paper. Then seeing he could not Kill himself, he decided to'have a good meal, went to a restaurant and ordered a plato of Hungarian goulash. It was also a substitute, and two hours later he died.

\ message from Butte City, Montana, states •that Frank Little, member ot the executive board of the Industrial 'Workers of the World, and a loading agitator in labour disputes in Arizona, was taken from his lodginghouse by masked men and hanged on a railway bridge. . Little recently referred to Lotted States troops a.s‘ “Undo Sam’s scabs in uniform.” On his body was found a. card on which was written, “First and last warning. Others take notice.’

Edwin Rather, 14, son of a German interned in the Isle of Man. was charged in Old Street Children’s Court by Ids German mother with assault and damage. The boy, she said, had struck her with a hoot.‘and in a struggle had broken a window. She admitted having cut the boy’s face because he called heT- by an opprobious German name. The Magistrate (Mr Wilberforce) declined to interfere between a German mother and a German son, and discharged the boy.