INTERESTING NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 220, 4 June 1915, Page 3

INTERESTING NEWS.

j The ‘' prop’uet ’ J Baa, who created *. : stir on the Ksst Coast some tin:" by lii> crusade, partly la-iigions, hrj fallen suk* serious 'trouble. H- ?■■■-.- 1 i charg’d at Wbukata'nc frith sly*gr j lire hr gelling liquor to natives, r. j some varisr-ts of this offence and o u' c -- j od to come up for sentence vdicn w':-P | on. lie is now ordered to gaol for | months. He had the effrontery to u . j his followers that Ihe imprisonracru .-.f> ■ had to undergo is nothing' but a j of their faith in him. and ro insti* - r« sonic blasphemous parallels. It has been suggested in letters to vi: , press that unmarried members of I'- - j 1 lament should set an exaurulc bv voij unleenug for service at the frc.-*;. I This siaouiont was brought undo: r •-■> [ notice of the Prime Id ini, star, and V . i -vl.assoy stated that five • unman wj members o fhis party had informed x.-: of their desire to go to ihe fornt. T*. of those gentlemen wen ondavoa.; .eg to among pairs, no had.,ashed a tain Opposition member to volar also in order that a safe pair beta-, j them may bo arranged. A remarkable position ha.?, ariset. ; t connection with the body of some unknown man found in Bluff Harbour mm Monday. The body was much dr posed, and the features quite umv.c? n 5 sable, but a number of articles wore found in the unfortunate man’s ties by which his identity could be tabiished. On Weduesoay an Jr.vsr cargili boarding house keeper who had " boarder missing visited Bluff and positively declared the clothing ct'l effects to bo iUoso of Wiliam Koena:., 1 .'PS years of age, formerly of Port aha 1 j mors. She had leant Keenan a shirt j : -gi tue, and she .had no- dihiculty whs: ever in i ec-ynising her own garm*: v * * At the inquest, Mr T. Hutchinson s.?,i (coroner) returned a verdict that Ham Keenan was “found drowned. • but yesterday afternoon the police rceivcd word from Keenan (at Edf« dak-) v'.iat he is alive and well, and. ; turning to his- people ac Port Chain?.-,:?. in a few days. As the remains haw*-' been interred as those of William Ik? nan, and his death duly registered, Ka nan is in the extraordinary position cl, being bodily very mndi alive but dr claliy dead and buried.