CADETS AT THE EXHIBITION.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 30, 12 April 1907, Page 5

CADETS AT THE EXHIBITION.

THE MARLBOROUGH DETACHMENT. CANVASTOWN AND HAVELOCK BOYS WILL ARRIVE HOME TO-MORROW. [By Telegraph—Special to Guardian] Christchurch, April 10.' The North Marlborough contingent are thoroughly enjoying their outing. On Tuesday they went to Sumner, and had a good time. They were given free passes to all the shows in Wonderland and the cyclorama. The water chute, camels, donkeys, and toboggan suffered severely last night. There has not been any sickness, not even a headache, yet. We expect to leave Lyttelton on Friday, at 6 p.m., for Wellington, and there catch the Wainui, which leaves Wellington at noon on Saturday. So that if all goes well the Cadets should reach Havelock at about 9 o’clock on Saturday night. The boys have settled down to camplife wonderfully, and will be adepts in the art of looking after themselves before reaching home. The weather has been lovely, bright sunshine prevailing. A visit to the tents at night reveals a heap of sleeping forms. The quietness is broken only by the starts and mutfcerings of some dreamer as be recalls scenes and incidents, in the Pelorus.

The boys have been well fed, sausages being on the bill of fare every morning, with meat, bread, jam, and butter for dinner and tea. They are continually losing various articles, but generally find them again, and are learning to put everything in its place after using it. The medical officer visits the camp twice a day, but his services have not yet been required. A Bank Manager’s Suicide. Auckland, April 10. Henry Curnow, Manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Whangarei, committed suicide by shooting himself at Ponsonby at noon to-day. He arrived from Whangarei this morning, accompanied by his wife, and went to stay at the residence of his wife’s sister, Mrs Baker, in Hackett Street, Ponsonby. On arrival at Mrs Baker’s house deceased mentioned that the trip from Whangarei in the boat had greatly upset him, and said he had been walking up and down the boat all night. He said he felt so unwell that he could not go to New Plymouth with his brother-in-law, as he had intended, but would return to Whangarei by boat, leaving Auckland this evening. He remained in the house a few hours, and when he left about 10 o'clock he told his wife he would go to the city to see the local Manager of the Bank. When he returned to the house about noon his wife was standing on the verandah. As he approached the house he took a pistol from a pocket and in front of his wife levelled it up to his right temple .and pulled the trigger. The bullet passed right through his head, and he fell, dying almost immediately. Deceased, who was forty years of age, had been twenty years in the service of the Bank, and had been at Whangarei for the last three years. He had been somewhat strange in his manner lately, and had suffered from ill-health. The latter fact is said to have worried him. No other reason is known for the act. He leaves a widow and a three-year-old daughter.