NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, 30 January 1918, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

TROUBLESOME SEAMEN.

MILITARY. GUARD , PELTED,

WELLINGTON, January 29

Owing to a number of seamen being refused permission to go ashore on Saturday evening, a number of them pelted and abused the military guard for over an hour. Finally a sentry fired a shot, and the seamen hastily retreated.

A RIDICULOUS PROPOSAL

WELLINGTON, January 29

The suggestion that German and Ausrtian names should be removed from the map of New Zealand was condemned to-day by the president of the New Zealand Institute, Professor Benham, He termed the proposal as ridiculous and highly undesirable. Books of travel would be made unintelligible. If any proposal of the kind was afoot the institute should enter a strong protest. ,

ESCAPE.OF A PRISONER

GETS AWAY FROM TRAIN,

AUCKLAND, this day

Joseph Thomas Christie, who escaped from Avondale, Mental Hospital, was captured at Patea, and taken to Wellington, was charged there with theft, He was conveyed to Auckland by the Main Trunk Express this morning in company with another prisoner in charge of two constables. As the train was approaching the suburbs Christie asked permission to enter the lavatory, which was granted. Shortly suspicion was aroused and investigation showed that Christie had got through the lavatory window and escaped. The train was going slow at the time, and the prisoner is probably uninjured. So far there is no trace of him.

(A full account of this young man's escapade, winding up by his arrest at Patea, appears on page 6.)