NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, 8 February 1919, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

BANK NOTES STOLEN. WELLINGTON, Feb. 7. A box containing new bank notes, which came out in the Ruahine for the National Bank of New Zealand was pillaged, and the notes have already got into circulation and been accepted by the banks. There arc 1000 notes, all of the value of £l, missing. The numbers are from 599801 to 600000 inclusive, and 600201 to 601(5170 inclusive. The notes were perfectly new when stolen, and had no signatures. They now bear false signatures and were “dirtied” and crumpled up to take the newness off before being circulated. TRAGEDY AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, February 7. George Kirkwood, employed in the Railway Department, was severely injured this morning by jumping from a; window, and died later at tbe hospital. Ho came into town with his mother, to visit Dr. Milsora, and was seated in the waiting room with his mother, when he suddenly made a rush for the window. His mother made an attempt to stop him, but he evaded her and disappeared out of the window. The room is on the third floor, • a distance of about fifty feet from. the ground, and in his descent tbe man struck tbe guF.'r of the structure roofing in passage way. Thence his body rebounded and fell a further distance of some twenty feet on to the concrete paving of the light well of the building. Dr. Milsom immediately hurried- down and found the man lying on the ground with blood pouring from a severe gash in the throat, the vein being severed. He was quite conscious, arid said, “I am mad, doctor.” The injured man had been in camp for some time, aud had been suffering from influenza. He had been unable to sleep for some considerable time.