NEWS AND NOTES.

Waikato Independent, Volume IV, Issue 291, 16 October 1906, Page 5

NEWS AND NOTES.

An affray took place on one of the vessels lying in Auckland, as the result of which two men are now in the hospital suffering from injuiries supposed to be caused by stabbing. At the inquest on the body of Mr Gloy, schoolmaster, at Napier, the following verdict was returned :-—" That the deceased committed suicide by walking into the river while temporarily insane, owing to mental depression." Miss Ellen Ward, daughter of the Premier, was presented at Wellington, on Friday evening, with the diploma of association in music by His Excellency Lord Phuket, Vice-President of Trinity College. Miss Ward is the first New Zealand lady who has gained the honour. Of the lonic's big consignment of passengers booked to Wellington, the Labour Department has provided for about fifty of those who came in search of employment. The majority of these have been accommodated with farm work, of which there is any amount offeeing at the present time. A bushman named Edward Wilson was badly injured at Kangihau on Thursday afternoon. A ricker thirty feet long struck him on the lower part of the stomach. His mates carried him to Gumtown, and from there to Mercury Bay Hospital by Mr Gray's oil-launch. There is little hope of his recovery. On Thursday a man named Llewellyn Warren, working at Limestone Island, near Whangarei, met with a painful accident. It appears that he was working on a scaffold and, missing his footing, fell a distance of 80 feet. He sustained severe scalp wounds and was bruised and badly shaken, but no bones were broken. He was removed to the Hospital. At the inquiry re the fire which destroyed a cottage at Millfcown, near Gisborne, on August 29th, the jury returned a verdict that the dwelling of G. A. Johnston was set fire to by some person or persons unknown, and the jury added that the practice of agents insuring property without inspection is a practice to be deplored, as serious results on occasion must ensue. At a well-attended meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the Farmers' Union on Saturday, after a discussion on the late Land Bill, the following resolution was passed : " That this meeting is pleased to see that the Government has withdrawn the Land Bill for the present, and considers that it is desirable that before the Land Bill is forced on the country the people should have time to consider it, and, further, that it should be placed before the constituencies at the next general election." Since his recapture Lionel Terry has been allowed little or. no liberty at the Sunnyside Mental Hospital. He has been under constant supervision and except when he conies downstairs to .meals he is confined in an upper storey room. On the last Saturday night that he escaped he was locked in his room at a quarter to eight, and his clothes were removed with the exception of a shirt. Terry evidently selects Saturday nights for his escapades because- the telephone and telegraph offices are then closed, and remain so till Monday, the news of his escape thus travelling slowly.