ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1923, Page 2

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

LONDON, Oi'iolicr 27. Lady Dimsdale. widow of Sir .Join: Dimsdal t . (who himself suicided) wi> chained at Canterlmry. with attorn].tod suicide Tiy walking into tin* soil :it Wliitestable. It Mils stated in evidence that she had informed the police that .she tried to drown herself, as her Inishand had previously committed suicide. I he Probation Officer staled he had secured employment for the prisoner as a kitchen-maid at the Maidstone Girls’ Home. Counsel tor the present baronet the prisoner’s step-son. said that lie was "dliiifx to assi-a her financially if she were willing to no to the Girls’ Home. The prisoner interjected : “It i- rather late lor this offer." after her experiences. The accused agreed to accept the work offered, whereupon Hie Mas diseluirced.

SUVA ELECTIONS. SUVA, October 27. A poll was held to-day for the elective members of the Legislative Council and it resulted 11. Marks. 27:1: 1L M. Scott. 231; G. F. Graham 103. LABOUR AND PROTECTION. LONDON. Oct. 20. lit Hon Arthur Henderson. Labour M.P.. speaking at Veoville, said:—Mr Baldwin, the I'ritn- M’nister. wants to obtain a verdict on the general questions of protection as the nnlv solution of unemployment. The challenge the Labour Party imhesitntittglv accents. Mr Baldwin’s confession of hi- utter bankruptcy regarding unemployment. I deny that protection, anywhere, at any lime, has solved the problem of unemployment. A protective system i- no guarantee against unemployment. To attempt to cure employment by udiiiinstering a dose of the poison from which w care already suffering, is the negation of sound sense and good statesman-hit). A protectionist system nman- taxation of the most vicious kind, levied without regard to sound principles, and sound finance, and one imposing additional burdens on an already overburdened people.