TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 April 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

I'UESS ASSOCIATION. |

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.

Auckland, This Day. About one o'clock this morniug a carter named J. J. Sayers, residing in Bath-street, Parnell, attacked his .vife and child with an axe, inflicting serious injuries on the former, and then committed suicide by taking poison. Sayers, his wife and little girl, aged eight, slept in the same room. Sayers appears to have got the axe from the yard and made a furious attack on his wife, who was in bed, inflicting fearful wounds on her head and shoulders. Either before or after Sayers attacked his daughter. She has a large bruise on the head. Sayers finally drank some strong corrosive poison and lay down on the bed beside his unconscious wife. The police were summoned by the neighbours and found Sayers just dying. Mrs Sayers was .111consciouis and bleeding terribly, but probably her injuries may not prove fatal. So far nothing is known to suggest a motive. THE NECESSARIES"OF LIFE. Carterton, This Day At the last meeting of the Cross Creek branch of the Railway Engineers, Firemen and Cleaners' Association, it was resolved to call the attention of the Government to unreasonable charges now being made for the necessaries of life, and that the Association consider that the national crisis was used by the merchants and others for private enrichment, and also deplore the inactivity of the Government in allowing exploitation, and call upon the Government to use legislative means to lix a maximum price for the necessaries of life, and protect the country from further exploitation. S. S. RIVERINA'S MISHAP. Wellington This Day. The steamer Rivcrina, while being berthed at Queen St wharf last evenin# collided heavily with the concrete pier. Her stern was badly burnt about six feet above the waterline, and the lip ol one of her bow plates on the port side was torn out of its rivets. The Riverian struck bow on. Tlie protecting piles were splintered and smashed for thirty feet on each side. Her bow eventually hit tlie solid ferroconcrete jjortion of the wliarf.' Her decking was cracked for a length of about eighteen inches, but this will not prevent her departure for Sydney at noon to-day. KILLED WHILEAT WORK. Waiiganui. This Day. A man named Sykes. aged 30. single, was killed at Korouiti yesterday afternoon by a fall of earth. He was working in a cutting when the earth fell on him. RAILWAY FATALITY. Dannevirke. This Day. At the inquest on the death of Wil- ' liain Arthur Prince, farmer of Makotuku, who died a sthe result of injuries received from being struck by a railway engine three weeks ago, a verdict was returnecT "that deceased met his death through being struck by a locomotive, no blame being attachable to the railway authorities." OUTBREAK OF WADIANGU GEYSER. Rotor na, This Day. Tt apjwars that a party of nine visitors had the unique experience of witnessing the outburst at Waiinangu. They were standing on tlie top of a hill overlooking the old- crater, and the guide was explaining its former activities, when a rumbling noise was heard. This was followed by the sound of a muffled yet terrific report, the whole mass was hurled in the air. Rocks, weighing in some cases, as much as five tons, being sent 300 and 400 feet, and the light material rising in a heavy dark brown mass to a height of 700 feet, was dissipated into a white vapour which rose another 200 feet