INTERESTING NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 270, 17 August 1915, Page 2

INTERESTING NEWS

MESSAGE PEOM LUSITANIA. A bottle was picked up the oilier day at McCarthy's Cove, on the County Watorford coast, outside Youghal Harbour, containing a piece of brown paper with the following written in copying ink pencil: "No other paper to be got. Going down with Lusitania; torpedoed off Old Head of Kinsale. — M. MeMauus. Good-bye." TICKET COLLECTOR ASSAULTED. Keraarkable.evidence was given at i an inquest on Mrs. Ellen Close, wife of a shipyard . worker, who was shot dead near her own doorstep in Belfast, by Edward Boyse, an Army pensioner. The latter, when arrested, said lie only fired the revolver to frighten another woman named Black, who got him a month's gaol for threatening language. The evidence of several witnesses showed that he rushed alfJng the street after Mrs. Black and fired at her. She took refuge in the house of her father-in-law, an old lame man, but Boyse, as alleged, burst in the door and was about to fire again when the old man held him. Mrs. Black once again escaped to the street, and it was the second shot fired at her that killed Mrs. Cfcso. Boyse then returned tq oil Mr. Black's house and knocked him down for interfering. A verdict of "Wilful murder" was returned against Boyse: '■ ! ' '!•'"!' ' aam -'-.'"i A WOMAN'S REVENGE. '"'- ; .Sentence of ten months' hard labour was passed at the Old Bailey on Katherine Laverty, 30, of Cossall Street, I Backhaul, w!io was convicted of throwing corrosive fluid upon Private John -McDowall, A.S.C., at Grove Park Barracks, Lee. Laverty first met McDowall in Scotland at Christmas, when she was in service at New Galloway. The parties subsequently came to London. McDowall was a married man, and eventually enlisted. In consequence o! i :• message en April 2f)th, McDowall went into the orderly room at the bar- j racks, where he saw Laverty. She made i some remark that he did not hear, and ; then tlr-- p quantity of corrosive ' fluid into his face, with the result that J one of iil.s eves was permanently injur- j eo. Mr. Justice Lush said this was a | very serious case, and an offence that, ( unfortunately, was becoming xory com- | mon. He - had no doubt the woman i.i- j tended to injure the prosecutor. I "THE KAISER'S PINT." ' f i ' for c'.ose upon a century the Ist Royal Dragoons, of whom the Kaiser I was colonel l - in -chief, have celebrated I the anniversary of the battle of Water- | ' 100 by toasting the health of the Prus- ! sinn monarch in a pint of beer provid- j

od by his Imperial Majesty; but the old custom was broken this your, and there were cries of "Hoeh. hoch, the Kaiser!" i>.s in previous years. On several occasions—the last being at Shorneli/fe in 1904 the Kaiser has attended in person to go through the annual ceremony of addressing the regiment on parade, presenting it with a laurel wreath to celebrate the victory won side by side with the Prussians, and entertaining the men to the timehonoured "-pint." On the other occasions he lias been represented by the German Consul cf the town in which the Dragoons happened to be stationed for the time being. The last ceremony took place in South Africa, two months before the regiment sailed for England prior to participating in the present war.