GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 195, 15 February 1912, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

FRANKTOX STABBING AFFRAY. By Telegraph—Press Assooiatien. Hamilton, Wednesday. John Graham, who was one of two men wounded by Axel Snertringe in the stabbing affray at .Frankton on January 18, died in the Waikato Hospital this morning. His dying deposition Tjas taken yesterday. Snertringe comes before the court to-morrow.

A RIOTOUS BLIND 'MAN. Palmerston N., Wednesday. John McCarthy, a blind man with a bad reeord, was before the Police Court this morning on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, resisting the police and wilfully damaging a cab window. Last week in Wellington he-was fined £5 and costs for using obscene language and other offences. He has upwards of a dozen convictions since 1902. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for resisting the polio© and was ordered to pay the amount of damage caused.

PUTTING DOWN "KEGGING."

Invercargill, Wednesday. Two men were fined £lO each far breaches of prohibition orders. She Magistrate remarked that he was' determined to put down "kegging," and expressed the opinion that young men who sat round kegs drinking were better in gaol.

THE CASE OF LIONEL TERRY.

Wellington, Wednesday.. Mr. J, L. Kelly, who has been interesting himself in .the question of Lionel Terry's release, has receivad a reply from the. Premier, stating that; after most careful it Ms been decided that the prayers •of the petitioner cannot be granted. It ie understood that the Government are acting upon the report of r«sponsibl« officers, whose opinion is adverse to Terry's release. Mr. Kelly expresses disappointment with the result, espeaially as no reasons are given, and, as matters stand, the agitation is likely to be renewed.

THE FIJI HURRICANE. Auckland, Wednesday. News from , Fiji, per the Zealarilia, states that the hurricane will prove a set-back to the colony, as almost the entire group has suffered. Copra lias suffered from the effects of wind, bananas from floods, and it will be six months before the bananas return to their normal condition, although there is probably enough fruit left to satisfy the Sydney and New Zealand markets. The native foods suffered sevierely. Che hurricane did great damage at Savu Savu Bay, and it will be several months before that district returns to its normal _ condition. Hapaai suffered very considerably, and the steamer Dojrigo was stranded on the Lau group, and it will cost some hundred pounds to renair h<T.