NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 73, 25 March 1916, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

ROTORTJA SENSATION. M BATHMAN'S THEOAT CUT. BODY FOUND IN BLUE BATH. Yesterday. This morning Thomas-Adam Fowles, an attendant at the Blue Bath, was found in the bath with his throat cut, the head being nearly severed. His coat, vest, purse, and keys were found in the bath office. There was a razor lying in the bath under the body. Deceased went to the bath at 6.10 a.m., and locked himself in. The bodywas found by Mr. Hackett, who went to relieve him at 9 a.m. Fowves was 45 years of age, and o married man with no children. Hihad been absent in manner recently, and worried' over the purchase o* »• business that -he intended buying, but suicide was not expected. A MAORI CHILD SCALDED. FALLS IN HOT SPRINGS. ROTORUA, Yesterday. A Maori child named" Marjorie; E>tene, six years of age, fell into £ hotspring at Ohinemutu yesterday, and was fearfully scalded. Her condition . is critical. MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. TO VISIT ENGLAND. AT ENGLAND'S,EXPENSE. . DUNEDIN, This Day. Mr. Malcolm, M.P., has received a cablegram from the British Branch of the Empire Parliamentary Associa-i tion, stating that free return passages to England have been arranged foifour delegates from the New Zealand Branch of the Association, who were in,vited by previous cablegram.