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Otaki Mail, 9 April 1923, Page 4

bUiCiDE AT. FBILPING. Feij ding, April 7. Ihe nouy ol Y\. H. benson, a rnoi ..'/r garage prop*unor, wus round in ?; . ’lit* wasn house at ins residence at an | early hour this morning with a id he J ahaig.-itie and a. bullet wound in the | head. lie had been gieatly depressed •j* lately owing to a nervous break-down. ;j j if-' '■; v, hl'.v ; Jr; ; i!, 11 > i ! ... - ANOTHER C’JiJIDE :i. Arr k. ■: Jr.i. Ar»r;l 7, , iv - J: : ; ;r if; ■ - rfii.i 'i .1 : -~j ■ - ■>. :iy ■ ■ 1 ' ■ >):• :: j rur i! ha'! 7' - : r.-tri'i«. He- » hr I r ; ,J ; ;.. ; •-•1 ‘J j jor SuajC . ■ CHILD’S BODY FOUND.

TUB MO'I !! Eli'S !• Xi'L SN VII N. ■ nr;;:ur oh, \n: u V. ; The of a child o.nered to j !weii fO'ioß o;i a. sid* a! house at Soekburn, is a -inotie women •; and now in the hospital. T no- ; ■ r rave birth to 'he nil i about mid- f night on Wednesday while alone. she ! • si Mr Foster in the morning’ that she had found ‘he 'd .-?. the y,-. r _ den outside the window. Mrs Foster sent to; a doctor and u.e pc;: - and; the detective- after questioning the; occupants of the house obtained a full, j statement from wo rnthat the; child had been prematurely bom and; was weak, and had died at 10 p.ro. on Friday.

IRISH HORRORS. CROP OF TERRIBLE CRIMES Dublin, April 5. Kenian and Breslin, two Dublin youths living with a sister, were taken from bed by three armed men, nut into motor ears and carried to the \shtown suburb, where they were dung into the road. Kenian had two bullets in the heart and Bresiin’s head .-.as blown off his body, which was riddled with bullets. Residents heard shooting and saw he bodies thrown into the road but dared not conn’ from their houses until die ears returned to Dublin. Three similar mysterious murders hove been committed in Dublin since Thursday. In each case the victim ".••• ; ■'apparently a Republican. A parly of rebels looted the town of Rroinahair in County Leitrim, plundered the shops and burned down the Courthouse. Du tin:;- a so-called political argument in Ballina - , an old woman named MrGutnnoss and her son were shot dead. Their home in the Ballina district is in the hands of the rebels. FRENCH VIEWS CHANGING. HIGH MINISTER FAVOURS BETTER TERMS FOR GERMANY. * 'T7} UNRELENTING PRESS CON- - 11 URNED. Paris, April 6. The French press is concerned over M. l.cueheur's interview with Briti-h su-te-men. M. Dander, a Paris deputy, lodged a notice of. interpeliaiion in ihe Chamber. The Matin states that M. I.oueheur’s views .as reparation are not opposed io those oi Cabinet. France would accept a reduction of the German deb! in consideration of prompt pay ment instead of thirty years' credit The Fn-neli Government admit' the pos.'ihilii.v ol meeting all debts by ■ ■-eries oi international loans. now CATHt iLIG VlCAlt-GENERAI. DIED. Riga, April a. it ia leiiuhiy stated from Moscow •a; Amei i a., has u;iuili> ia iy , duecd i11,.' .- ivi, i to allow tne P„ ttar..]) lu-diou ! 1 go to 'uni . r.a,. where no lonneny lived. Trotsky and Kaiuoticil, woo are virtually dictators, weie inclined to agree but lire Red Bishop, Antonin, head vi tin.-, suvio ■; erne Church administration, u;.-.-u.i b d hem.. i he Rial has been postponed porno dig die uni)ucking ol Tikhon. I iie ■".'■o' Food i ouiinissar Volsky v -'a- insj.,- ling the Tam.i.'olf district when Ju- was ambushed j.y the peasant'., who eupUued and beheaded iiiin. wn.ii an a.xe. Warsaw, April 5.

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i -j , i' ■- ■: not-n ~;* ' -i-iueii; on I'll' :„ n non-; .ei s ‘!. ,u. In. 1.-ve.di.a n;.!h>/s i! jurloui u'Kiik «i ,J" •; j;<i ji inFnglaml, die murdere; •> Jiauaisis proiioi.itic'* the deal; j ; l hnf.d! i;d Ui‘-!isUJ:ri I li.-i.dnei) ’ The PruvUu Ur- ] tali a ‘ ■ n 'in i' 1 ..’!."-' by d’ lauii, pen dn..' ! - ebtaijji-ain.-iii oi n revoisi ; ; ! . i . ;; ja ■. HILNn ! CI.LiiK JiOLiULb Paris, April 6. ' 1 •' v>. n j.; (iking -did,!.'■: at Bank oi Fran- •• v.ml' ■ :-'■ ! ■ ■; f . v.-; ..de, amount \vh;b -■■ping- to tind two i, ten i,n h a hy tander .-aid no ;.ad dropped.

QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT RESUMES LAND. Vlifi, V I-OH WHEAT (■' VBMS B;i-bane, Apr] 1 Govern:;,-C: ! f ia . ,j. :C l |. : ,J 7 - Of fieehOld aij‘l ■ »<1 in the Horna, Mitrheji :<i Go-fidiwincJi districts. The eoun- ! ' '--oncenied is served by the state ;:iV£ G' eu<j is iii j s■ -unable for jecu-g-iowiijg, but. is novc mostly <je-t-'j to she-n tariff, f- wifi f,.-. cut t v-h&r.-yrowing farms and nnerused w promote closer settie;lU. GERMAN WOMAN’S REVENGE. Meffi- ■.rna, Apri! T t peculiar case was heard it, Norn

' i,; ‘ ' / i -’ -- ** : i Gemum \-,0-nan, nan, hoaisa Muller, v.r,. committed ; ° r mal ' j! * -barge of stealing g.,0 Is r - . at £ll4 iron; Haddon and i o.’s »arenouse whose total losses are s<ato be over a thousand. Accused in t.-j..* witness box admitted taking the -* 1 ■ ; uand -aid her father was interned -at the instance of Haddon This caused her mother to fail into f|t_ health, watch' so preyed upon accoseo. - mind that she was induced to steal as revenge against Haddon. THE WASTE OF WAR.

AUSTRALIA SCRAPS HALF MILLION •STERLING PLANT. Melbourne, April 7. As a result of the disarmament resolutions adopted a: the Washington Con.sien> ; i, tee proposed naval Case Cockhurii' *oun4. V/. tern Ausiraas Pan of Admiral Henderson’s defence- scheme is being abandoned. o'-'*r a million sterling has been ?T":rrr on preliminary veoj'k. Arrangements are being made for the disposal of the' idle plant-arid machinery. It is art;cipated that after this is disposed * of the Commonwealth will have- to cut the lose of over half a million sterling.