NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 252, 19 July 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

THREE MORE DEATHS.

AT TRENTHAM CAMP.

WELLINGTON, This^ay.

Privat e Herbert James Williams, who came from Picton, and Private David Bruce Doggett, belonging to Rangiora, e ach 21 years of age, died at Trentham on Saturday. Warter Ford, whos e relatives are fit England, died at Trentham yesterday. Th e causes of death are not stated. BREAD AN'D FLOUR PRICES. I REDUCED IN DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, This Day. Flour has been reduced by ten shillings a ton. It is now quoted in Dunedin at £l6. The local price for flour has thusbeen reduced thirty shillings a ton within the last two weeks. The p rice of bread for the fourpound loaf will be reduced from lOd to 9Jd.

GOVERNMMENT MEAT PURCHASE. THE QUANTITY TO DATE. WELLINGTON, This Day. Up to and including Saturday last, th e following quantities of meat hare been purchased in New Zealand onrf behalf of the Imperial Governments since the inception of th e scheme on 4th March: 135,369 quarters of beef; 775,853 carcases of mutton; 1,456,087 of lamb. Th 6 total purchases amount to £2,613,121 10/.

TRENTHAM ROYAL COMMISSIONFURTHER EXPERT EVIDENCE/ WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr R. W. Holmes, engineer-in-chief to the Public Works Dept., gav e evidence to-day before the Trentham. Ro3* al Commission. He said that up to the present he had had nothing to da with th e erection of the hutments. Oa Tuesday last he was asked to take charge of all work He considered the hutments Jairtf'y Thjvy would b e rather cold on frosty nights, and some attention would have to be given to ventilation. With regard to sanitation he considered the collection of sewage was satisfactory, but the disposal after collection provided! greater difficulties in view of the ground possibly becoming clogged with particles of solid matter. He had under consideration means for dealing wit& this.

NEWS FROM THE ISLANDS.

THE STRATHCONA CREW. SAFE.

TWO BRUTAL MURDERS

AUCKLAND, This Day. News was received last night by Mr Hertslet, superintendent cf the Pacific Cable Board, Auckland, concerning the crew of th e Stratheona. It states that the whole crew is now accounted for. A message stated that the ship's cutter, containing Capt. W. Rolurtson and the mate, F. Gilding, had been picked up. The message was as follows: "Picked up Capt. and cutter about 20 miles from Minerva Reef; returning to Suva with all members of the crew on board. The schooner is a total wreck, but some cargo may be salvaged.

Mr Hertslet stated that the steamer would wait at Suva for further orders, but will probably return to Auckland this week.

News of the murder & Samoa was brought by passengers on the steamer Tofua, which arrived in Auckland yesterday.

The victim was a coolie, employed on a plantation some distance from Apia, but when the steamer left, the police had not identified the author of the crime. The man had been attacked with an W axe, and his body was horribly mutilated.

During the morning on -which the man was killed, all th e ether coolies employed on plantation were in Apia, having been summoned t&ere as witnesses in a court case, so that it is considered that the prospective absence of th e murdered man's usual companions was taken into consideration by the author o? the crime. News was also received by tb e Tofua that a murder was committed on the morning of July S, by an Indian in. Somabulla in the Fiji group. The victime, a girl of about fifteen years,was shot, the murderer then parading the neighbourhood with a plentiful supply of ammunition.

A party of police left Suva immediately for the scene cf the crime, and it was afterwards learned that the Indian had been shot.