Taihape Sensation.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4378, 25 February 1909, Page 3

Taihape Sensation.

A MURDEROUS RUFFIAN ATTEMPTED MURDEK. SECURED AFTER DESPERATE STRUGGLE. Taihape, February 23. . A sensation occurred at Ohutu last Dight. It appears two men, Garlick, labourer, 25, and Chatfield (married) rode to Taihape yesterday, returning late in the afternoon. They evidently quarrelled and got off their horses, Chatfield being thrown over the bank - Had he reached the river death was certain, but fortunately he landed on the verge of the cliff. He was found subsequently in a dazed condition, his assailant probably assuming that his companion had been disposed of, rode off, leading the other horse. He made for Chatfield’s house, where seizing a carving knife he threatened to, do for the rest of the family. Fortunately a man named Oliver was present, and after a desperate struggle secured the kdife. Garlick then whipped out a jack knife and renewed the fray. He was again disarmed. Then Garlick ijumped into a two horse »dray, drove to his lodgings, and secured a loaded gun. He returned and threatened to shoot anyone whc in terferred with him. He tried to induce some spectators tf» go with him aad show where Chatlied was. They declined. He then asked for Mrs Chatfield Being told she had gone, said “ I’ll go too.” Then the gun went off and Garlick fell out of the cart wounded in the left -arm, chest, and shoulder. The police and doctor were summoned and his injuries attended to. This morn • ing the man was conveyed to the Wanganui Hospital.

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In reference to a paragraph recently to the effect that consumers of fruit had suffered from arsenate of lead poisoning owing to the presence on the fruit of the spraying mixture ueed almost universally by orchardists to destroy blight and. noxious grubs, a representative of the Christchurch Press nas been informed by a fruitgrower that it was highly improbable that any injurious materials would remain upon fruit for so long after spraying. The fruit was treated as soon as it was first “ set. ” and by the time it ripened it would grow to three times the size it assumed at the time of spraying, so that even if it were drenched with the solution in the first place, the quantity of solid matter remaining upon the fruit subsequently would be very small indeed. Exposure to the weather would diminish the effects of the arsenate, and much of it would be washed off by rains. The quantity used was about 21b to 100 gallons of water.