THE PRINCE'S TOUR ENDS. THREE MEN SHOT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3492, 21 May 1920, Page 5

THE PRINCE'S TOUR ENDS.

THREE MEN SHOT.

CHRISTCHURCH, this day

The Royal train. which left Invel'cargli at ten o’elock last night reached Clll-istchurcli at nine this morning. The weather was very cold. All the way down the Southern Alps were completely snow—clacl to the lowest foothills, and presented a magnificent spectacle, and daylight disclosed a white coat of frost over all the South C:Il)te1‘l.)111'y Plains. At Middleton the train was stoppeclfor a few minutes, while the Prince held an informal reception of all theofiicials and staff connected with the conduct of the tour. He also addressed a few words of thanks to them for the manner in

which everything had been done to secure the confort of his pa.rt.y during their tl':lvels. 55: ‘nrnld never forget The kindness extended to him on all hands in New Zealand. His Highness eonclurled by wishing all of them "‘Kia Ora.”

‘Photographs of the group were ‘then taken with the zrince in the midst‘ of the train §fé.fi'. The Prince left the *rain at Christ~ church, and is staying for :1 day as the guest of Captain and Hon. Mrs Tahu Rhodes.

To-night His Royal Highness entertains the Premier, Sir William Fraser, and the Mayors of the four cities ml: :1 dinner aboard -the Renown, which, according to. present arrangements, sxn.il:~‘,, for ‘Melbourne via. [Cook Straits, at daylight -to-marrow.

LAWLESSNESS IN MELBOURNE.

MELBOURNE, May 6.

While drinking a cup of coffee at. a pie stall in the southern part of Sydney Rozytl, Bi.'u'n‘swick, late last night, Sy(lney Spiller, :1. young man employed by the Brunswick Council on a stonecrushing machine, heard a shot and felt a stinging pain in his leg. He found a. slight flesh wound had been inflicted, which was treated at the ‘Melbourne Hospital. - BULI.ET WOUND OVER THE HEART. With a bullet wound over the heart, George Oxley, of Cobden Street, South Melbourne, was adinitted to the H.’OnloCOpa.t}.ll.C» Hospital late last night. His condition was serious, though. it is not considered critical. A young woman named Kenedy last night went. to see some friends at a house in Cobden street. Several young men were there, and when the party was just about to leave, the woman’s husband, Leslie Kennedy, a labourer, 27 years of age, arrived at the house and spoke to a man. He was ordered out of the house and took his wife with him. ' In the street Oxley and Kennedy commenced to soiiifle, and a shot was fired, the bullet striking‘ Oxley. He was taken by his mates to the hospital; in a motor car. MEAT AXE V. REVOLVER. Entering the Yarraville Police Station yesterday evening in a state of excitement, a. Chinese market gardener, Ah Pah, livfiig in Somerville road, Y-arraville. gasped that there was a robber in his hut. Two constables went. to the hut with Ah. Pah, but found no intruder there. A bullet‘. wound in the shoulder of the Chinaman proved that his complaint was not qrouiirlless. ‘

He had been lighting a fire in his hut, he said, when {L man looked in at the doorway, saying, “Hul]o, Jimmy, what have you got there?!” The Chinaman jumped up from his crouching position before the fire, and as he difillso he saw a flash and heard :1 repo_l'f_,,and felt a, stinging pain in his ..=;?::m.l}dol'.A Thoowound was~not serious, ho;wevor_. and, seizing a lneat axe, Ah. Pzih made for the man who stood by the door with :1 revolver in his hand. The intruder fled. '