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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 289, 29 April 1913, Page 3

A message .from Tokio states that Mr. Nakainura Ryoshu, Judge of the Taiku district of Korea, has committed suicide in extraordinary circumstances. He was a man of the highest moral character, and of almost martinet disposition. Recently he discovered that certain subordinate officials under his control were guilty of bribery and corruption, and secured their dismissal from the service. In revenge, they combined to charge the judge with a similar offence, and defamatory stories were widely spread, damaging his character. The judge in desperation determined to commit harakari as a public protest against the prevailing corruption rife in the Government service, and on the closing of the courts for the New Year vacation, he dressed himself in his official robes and committed old-time hari-kari before the portrait of Meiji Tenno. He left behind him, according to custom, a will indicative of his reasons, and stating that his suicide was a protest against the prevailing corruption in official quarters, and an expression of hopelessness of preserving the sanctity of the law or successfully administering justice under the administration of Count Terauchi. The charges which were brought against the judge by his dismissed subordinates were investigated and proved to be false.

SHOOTING SEASON, 1913. MAY 1 TO JULY 31, INCLUSIVE. LICENSES to shoot Cock Pheasants and Californian Quail in the Stratford Acclimatisation Society's district will be issued by the following post offices:—Stratford (principal), Toko, Ngaere, Midhirst, Whangamomona, and Strathinore. Fee, £l. Country residents sending the foe will have their licenses posted by the secretary. A REWARD of £5 will be paid for information leading to the conviction of any person shooting without license or contravening the Society's regulations. All lioenses must be produced on command of any ranger. W. B. FEARON, " , j,- ,: ' Secretary.