GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 96, 18 September 1914, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

CIIIXAMAN BRUTALLY ASSAULTED By Telegraph.—'Per Press Association. Welli'iigttn, Thursday. A violent assault, apparently i[,u'ie unprovoked, was committed on an elderly Chinaman, Wong Joe, in t'ourUiwy Place- tliiw morning. Wong had just tonne out of a countryman's fruit shop when he was set upon by a man, who knocked him dowai wid kicked hmi violently oil t'he jaw, inllioting severe injuries. The perpetrator walked unconcernedly away and was arrested in Tory Street. At the police station lie said his name was ,Tanws Little. lie slaitcd that he hail only) arrived a week rgo firom YV'hsiiigajuoinona. He gave no ltaso-n for lih.<} aiimitlt, except ihat a Chinese had done him out of hie job. The injured mtin wis removed to the 3'ospita], suffering from' partial fracture of the lower jaw and severe phonic.

UNFOUNDED SMALLPOX SCARE. Whangurei, Thursday. A vase of .supposed smallpox is in the isolation ward at Whangarei Hospital. Thy sufferer is a European re sidinig at Kaikou. Tin's is the place where the epidemic last year first) made its appearance. Steps are being taken to locate the contacts. Auckland, Thursday. Tlie ease of suspected smallpox in Whangarei J[ospit.it has be™ inquired into by the Health Department officials, who consider it acute chicken-.pox. The patient is a Kuropoau, from Waimi. There has bean no smallpox there for a long period. THIEVES fsHNT TO GAOL. Taiwuirunu'i, Thursday. Tn the 'Magistrale.'s l Court to-day Alexander Otonrad ami Thomas Tliompson, on many charges of theft from dwelling .focuses ami bush cawups bet ween Taumarunui and Onganie, were eondieted on three c J haxgy?» f 'and to six months' imprisoumK'ntl on each charge, the sentences to Ibe cumulative. J. K. Conrad was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for theft. All Hie prisoners had been associated in a series of thefts, and were arrested after a strenuous scarab by the police in wild country a week ago.