NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 June 1919, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

ACCIDENTS AND FATAEITIES. AUCKLAND, this day. Thomas .H-alloran, 35, single, was found on the "footpath in Lorne Street, having apparently fallen and fractured his skull. ‘ He died in the hospital. ' Mrs Elizabeth Flynn was found dead at her residence ,at Franklin Road with a coat_ over her face and a rubber tube attached to the gas bracket, near her mouth. She was evid.-ntly asphyxiated She had been despondent since her illness during the influenza epidemic. GERMA.NY’S POSITION. ‘ ' PARIS, June 12. ‘a A Zurich message states that Spartacist. aspirations, which were always stronger in Bavaria, are showing renewed vigour. They are supported by Catholics and Independent Socialists from entirely different motives. The former desire to unite with the Tyrol Austrian-Germans and form a Catholic State of Central Europe. This plan meets with the approval of Rome. The Independent Socialists Want to create a southern State opposed to the Majority Socialists of Northern Germany, _ultimately hoping to pave the way to apply independent ‘doctrines '-all over Germany. Bavarian Spartacists also hope to effect a separate peace with the Entente, which will be more a(l\vall- - than that conceded the German Empire. ' BURG-LARIES AT HAMILTON. HAMILTON, this ,day. Last night a series "of - burglaries occurred, and five premises were entered, £l2-‘being secured in one oifice. The visitors‘:-left. ‘behind an overcoat and a ‘pocket. -book containing a list of business» firms and par-tic.u.la.rs of premises, evidently intending to call on all. DEATH or A. CRIMEAN VETERAN. A gt-DISTINGUISHEJD OFEICER. V LEVIN, this day. The death ..‘occurred* yes‘-terday -of I\/lajor John Llddlc. aged 86, one of the few remaining Crimean veterans. I-iv served with the Royal Scots Greys in the charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava, also as lukerman, and the siege of Sebastopol. He was decorated on the field ‘R.-r distinguisliqd comluct-_ He also hold the Crimezm medal wjth three clasps and the Turkish medal.