THE COLONIST. Published Every Morning. Thursday, February 4, 1909. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12456, 4 February 1909, Page 2

THE COLONIST. Published Every Morning. Thursday, February 4, 1909. NEWS OF THE DAY.

, An English and American mail will arrive here to-morrow morning by .the Penguin. A lecture" will be given in the Baptist Church on Friday by Dr. Deck and Miss Yoamg. of the South Sea •Evangelical Mission. The lecture will be illustrated by limelight views. Regarding t"h.e fire 'at Motueka on Monday night,- our own correspondent wires -.—There was an insurance of > £250 on the building, and £150 on Mr Kelling's furniture. Only the ( piano and a few uaimpojtant articles -of ifurniture were saved. Mr and Mrs K'elling esfeaped.in their night: attire, and.had a iiarrow escape, Mr Kelling having his hair partly, burnt in rushing upstairs to saye 1 his son Theodore. The fire "is' : supposed to have started between the partitions in one of the upstairs rooms. — - At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Nelson Lodge of Oddfellows, held on January 20th, Bro. : H. Wilkins handed in his resignation as Superintendent of ; the Loyal Wakatu Juvenile Lodge of Oddfel-. lows.. Jt. was- resolved that the resignation; be 1 "accepted ..' with regret, and. that the Lodge place on Tecord its appreciation of Bro._ Wilkins' services -the past eighteen years. Bro. W. .HT.Prebble, being the only nomination, was unanimously elected to; the. position of Superintendent. Early yesterday morning Donald McDonald, a single man, about 25 years of age, attempted to cut his thf oit, -in ;, the Motupiko Lin. \Two , of i; his;" mates who slept in the same ! room.^weire aroused -at 2 a.m. by the sound- of breaking' glass, and it was found that McDonaldl had broken one of the window panes, and that blood was flowing freely ' from a w'aundvinjiis neck, self-inflicted by a. piece of the ■broken, glass, which his ;inates>.- secured -after -a- severe • struggle: W'lt,-- is, reported that '"Me-. Donald 4 ,ha,d been drinking -for some, time previously,, hut- had only returned to the hotel on the previous evenirigV - and ; before "retiring .'had been served with ■_ a" "slvandy." He .was conveyed, to tpwn- -by- the train, and Avas' admited . to ' the Hospital. From latest reports he is doing well,' and; his detention, at this institution is hot likely to be longer than 'bf^a. fortnight's -duration. ■ The. state- ; ment~ that he jumped thnraghvthe ;iwihdow is erroneous. ■ : .