NEWS BY MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 129, 22 November 1911, Page 5

NEWS BY MAIL.

[ DINNER TRAGEDY. REMARKABLE DEATH OF AN OFFICER. London, October 5. Captain J.R, Clarke, of the Ist Norfolk Regiment, died in the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, yesterday, from injuries received in a remarkable manner. On Friday evening the officers of the Norfolk Battalion gave a farewell dinner to the officers of the 2nd Grenadier Guards, prior to the departure of the Guards for Windsor. After dinner guesta and hosts were in turn carried round the mess-room on the shoulders of their brother officers.

Captain Clarke was being carried in this way, when he fell backwards across a chair. He collapsed, and had to be removed by motor ambulance to the hospital, where he died from the injury to his back. The medical authorities consider that long service in China must have rendered Captain Clarke's system peculiarly liable to injury. THROWN THROUGH A WINDOW. TRAGIC COMBAT IN A PARIS CAiFE. Paris, October 4. Ahe El Ealem Ben Sadoum is an Arab from Tripoli, well known by sight here in Paris, where he sells carpets and rugs on the boulevards. Last night he was sipping coffee a the corner of the Rue St. Antoine, whe he overheard some Italians congratula x ing one another on the capture of Tripoli. "It is not true," said Abe El Salem. "If you go into Tripoli we throw you out like this," and, seizing the smallest Italian by the leg, Abe El Salem, who ii a brawny Arab, sent him flying through a plate-glass window and into the street.

The other Italians drew knives and rushed at the Arab. When the police came he had been so badly hurt that he had to be taken to the Hotel Dieu, where the doctors despair of saving him. Two of the Italians have been arrested.

BRIDEGROOM'S SUICIDE. Paris, October 5. A curious tragedy, occurred early this morning in* the village of Trevron, near Dinan. A young blacksmith named Roualt was yesterday married to a charming girl of seventeen, and the marriage festivitiea lasted to a late hour. When the bridegropm wanted to take his wife home with him the girl's parents objected. The custom of the village is for the bride to-be taken to her husband's house on the day after the wedding. The bridegroom flew into a temper, and went < off declaring that as he could not take his wife home then and there he would not take her home at all. The wedding guests treated the affair as a joke, and this morning, headed by the local band, they marched with the bride to the blacksmith's house. There was no sound there, except the howling of a dog by the cold forge. The guests, singing and laughing, scattered flowers on the threshold, and th« bride opened the door and ran upstairs. In the bedroom she found the deed bo4y. of her husband, ivho had hanged himself' on the bedpost. r