DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1917, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

! - AN INVERCARGILL SENSATION, By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Trivercargill, Jan. 30. A sensational shooting ease occurred las': night. Frederick Annison, arehi- ' tfcet, about fifty, met Margaret Rren--3 nan, a married woman, in Victoria ' Avenue, and utter walking a short 41sJ tance, suddenly drew a revolver and 1 shot the woman through the throat. • She succeeded in reaching home and war ' removed to the hospital in a serious con- '■ dition. '■ Annison disappeared but was traced ' to his boardiug-hotise. When a de.tec- ' five arrived he shot himself in the heiid 1 anc! death was instantaneous. His motivc was unknown. The two had been 5 friendly, byt latterly their relations had 1 b<en strained. 1 unison had been despondent. He carried a revolver and threatened to commit suicide. On the death of his wife ; two years ago he became a regular visitci to lirennau's for company. He was originally a plasterer, and had lived in Natal and South Australia. He arrived in the Dominion ten years ago and start- ■ fd ns an architect. . FIRES T\ T FLAX SWAMPS. Palmerston N., Last Night. The whole hillsides are covered with (ires, and Palmerston is surrounded w'ith n. dense haze of smoke. Fierce fires are raging in the swamp area, G. Seifert having now lost o«.er 20 nercse of flax. The men from all over the flax area are assisting in lighting the flames, which threaten to wipe out the whole swamp. PRISON-BREAKERS SENTENCED. Auckland, Last Night. At the Police Court to-day, Albert McQueen and A. J. W. Roberts appeared on a charge of attempted prisonbreaking. McQueen, who was consideied to be the ringleader, was sentenced. to lose marks equivalent to 12 months' remission and Roberts to lose si\" months' marks. Both men iwcre ordered to be placed on bread and water for 14 , days and to be kept in separate divii sions until further orders. ' ANTI-SHOUTING FIXES. Auckland, Last Night. Lindsay Cooke, the licensee of the Queen's Ferry Hotel, was fined £2") for permitting "shouting" on 'the premises. A charge of consuming the liquor ire respect? of which the offence had been 5 committed wae withdrawn. The bar--5 maid at the hotel was fined £2' for supplying the liquor.