GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1918, Page 7

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

• ■■DEATH OF COLONEL HUME. - -By 'lelograph—Press Association. 1 Wellington, Feb. 2. Colonel Arthur Hume, formerly Inspector of Prisons and Commissioner of Police, died to-day, aged 77 years. ' '(Colonel Hume, who was born in Dublin, was educated at Cheltenham Collego; and subsequently entered the army, Jcohirjg the 79th Highlanders, with whom he 'served in India. On returning to Ehjjhtnd in 1874 he was appointed deputy-governor of Millbank Prison, going to Portland in 1873, and to Wormwood Scrubs as governor in 1878. Comnig'to New Zealand in ISBO he was appdiiited Inspector of Prisons, and from 1890 to 1895 he was Commissioner of Police and Under-Secretary for Defence He took a keen interest in the Volunteers, and was given a lieutenantcolonel's rank in 1888, when lie became Inspector of Volunteers, a position he held until 1890.) " '' AN ESCAPEE CAUGHT. Auckland, Feb. 2. '• Thomas Christie, who escaped froin custody on the Main Trunk express' on Wednesday, was recaptured at ndOn to-day. Two detectives, acting on the information that Christie had been peen in one of the suburbs, discovered him walking along a road. He surrendered without a struggle and was taken to the mental hospital. He had liecn living on poultry and vegetable dbtained from residences. He cooked the food in a, Maori oven.