ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2836, 29 July 1916, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUDDEN DEATH. By Telegraph—Press -Association. Whangarei, July.2B. A man named AlfW A. l'reece, aged 7G :\&iys, a resident <»f Coromandcl, wuo was on a visit io Whaiißarei, died «uddenly ill a hotel here Inst night, ELDEIiLr MAN HANGS HIMSELF. Br Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, July 28. Thomas Glaister, a labourer, aged 51, committed suicide by hanging at his residence, LancefieUl Street, C-ivershani, this morning. His wife left home about 5 o'clock, and, returning about 10.30, round hc-r husband hanging, with a.window cord round his neck, in n parage. Deceased had teen in bad health for two years, and had only dona two weeks work during the past eleven weeks. SAILOR DIES AT SEA. Dunedin, July 27. Allan Campbell, quartermaster on this Auarima, which arrived at l'ort Chalmers t<nlav, died suddenly yesterday morning at sea. Late on Tuesday night lie had a cup of tea in the galley, then going to bed, where he was found dead next morning. Deceased was about 15 years ol' age. SUICIDE AT- BLENHEIM. ' Blenheim, July 27. V man named Frederick Hermann Wybrott, aged 50, committed suicide by hanging himself. At the inquest a verdict uf temporary insanity was returned. Deceased leaves a wife and four children.

Here . are .some very sensible worda about music after the war, which wern written by Cyril Scott for flic "Monthly Musical Record," London. \Ye are strongly inclined to think that Mr. i.eott is cjr.ite correct in his prophecy, and that in the reaction, after all the discord and tumult is over, there will bn a tremendous striving alter beauty in music, whether that beauty come in a new form, as Scott thinks, or not. The spirit of war, then, most certainly seems lo have influenced with ifs discordant force our world of music. I say this, not because nnnae to-day appears to bn more saturated with discord than it (lid in Beethoven's or Warner's day (all our composer - *, including Debussy, are not discordant). but because, as already said, certain Futurists lack everything but discord. And f hazard another notion us to why these are unlikely to attain iinmorhvlil.v—however full of inventive talent tiiev may be-and that is the fact that aftci'the war a new order of things will come into being, the emotional works will be deprived of conflict, and art will talcs oil another new phase in which birauty. of however nor a kind, will once more reiun supreme as _tho basis and inspiration of all true creative. nes3."