ISLAND NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8959, 7 December 1905, Page 1

ISLAND NEWS.

[Br Electric Telegraph.—CopYErc:n

(Pes Press Association.;

Received December 6, at 10.7 p.m. Noumea, December 6.

Kenatra, an Arab recidiyis.te, guilty tithe murder of a fellow prisoner at the Is 1; of Pines, publicly guillotined in the presence of 1000 spectators at- daylig'ii this morning in the public square at Noumea, in order to serve as an example t' the Arab population. The culprit- w.-.s brought to the scaffold in a vehicle and escorted by gendarmes to the guillotine with a coffin alongside, surrounded by 100" soldiei-s. The usual executioner reccntly died, and his successor, through nervousness, bungled the affair, only decapitatiiiL: tlie culprit after the knife had slipped three times.