NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 28 July 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF. J AFTER A QUARREL. . WELLINGTON, This Day, Harry Parslow, who shot himselC after an altercation with a soldier, died! at an early hour this morning. FIRE AT SHANNON. HOTEL BURNED DOWN. LEvIN, This Day. Last night, a few inimbes bef:re 8 o’clock, the Albion Hotel, at Snannon, caught fire. The lur'd mg was completely destroyed, also the furniture, with the exception of a piano and a few small articles. It is stated that the insurance is £SOO on the furniture. The amount on the building is not known.

A CASUALTY COMPARISON.

REINFORCEMENTS WANTED.

ENABLING START FOR CONSTANTINOPLE. WELLINGTON, This Day. General Godley, writing to the Minister of Defence, stated that one cannot stir here without a chance meeting shrapnel or a sniper’s bullet. They talk of casualties in France, but fi fancy they are not anything to what they have been here. My division, alone landed 7543 strong, and I have had 4250 casualties. Australian division proportion is, I believe, higher. He concludes: “I hop e reinforcements are coming which may enable us to soon make a start for Constantinople.