Telegrams.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3872, 11 May 1906, Page 3

Telegrams.

Thames, May 10. Tasman Schofield, employed in

the tailings plant connected with

the Waiotalii battery, Tluum s, was killed by being caught in the belting. He was whirled round and picked up in a semi-conscious state, and died in Ibe Thames Hospital two hours later. His arm was fearfully lacerated, and be sustained internal injuries. Deceased leaves a wife and several children.

Christchurch, May 10

In reference to the mild conscription scheme for boys placed before the Defence Minister by Colonial Kitchener, Colonel Bauchop (commanding the Canterbury district) informed a reporter that he believed New Zealand was coming to the suggested conscription by training schoolboys for home defence. Soldiering in New Zealand was at a low ebb, because athletic men did not consider it an indubitable public duty, preferring football, cricket, etc. The number of volunteers was not commensurate with the value of property protected, and employers often refused to help employees to fit themselves for the country’s defence. If a conscription could not be adopted here it- could not anywhere. In sixty years the colony has been twice asked to bear arms, and the colonists bad lost that idea of military service that compelled their fathers to fight for their territory. A boy should go through a complete scheme of training, and the colony would have an adequate force at its command.

.■•gtrfjw Wellington, This day. The Premier’s sixth-first lirlhday occurs on the 22nd June. A movement is on foot to fittingly celebrate the event in Wellington. Bouquet, charged with attempting murder at Day’s Bay, was found “ not guilty ” and discharged. The Judge warned accused against)giving way to bis passions.