THE MONTE CARLO TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8511, 16 August 1907, Page 5

THE MONTE CARLO TRAGEDY.

REPORTED SUICIDE OF GOOU). THE REPORT CONTRADICTED. | ! Received August 15, 7/37 a m. LONDON, August 14. The Daily Telegraph's Marseilles correspondent reports that after the magistrate's departure Goold hinged himself in prison. Received August 15, 8.50 a.m. PARIS, August 14. Nobody believes Goold's statement that he possessed ample means and that the motive of the crime was not robbery. Marseilles newspapers deny the story of Goold's suicide. THE MAGISTRATE'S DISCOVERIES. Received August 15, 9.40 p.m. PARIS, August 15. The examining magistrate discovered in Goold's ante-room, at Monte Carlo, a tray on which were two used glasses and a third upside down on the tray, which was blood-stained. This is interpreted to mean that Mrs Levin was attacked soon after she entersd the room. The third unused class was placed for her to drink. The French magistrate is inquiring into the prisoner's antecedents in England, Lasaone and Montreal. BBITISSI FiOUTICS. THE SCOTTISH SMALL HOLDINGS BILL. Received August 15, S a.m. LONDON, August 14. In the House of Lords, Lord Roseberry declared his intention to vote against the Scottish Small Landholders' Bill, he objecting to the introduction of the poisonous bacillus of the Irish agrarian system. Lord Balfour of Burleigh moved an amendment equivalent to rejection of the Bill. Received August 15, 9.54 p.m. LONDON, August 15. In the House of Lords, Lord Balfour of Burleigh withdrew his amendment to the Scottish Small-holdings Bill in favour of the Marquis of Lansdowne's proposal to adjourn the debate on the second reading until the Lords considered the English Land Bill.

This course was agreed to by a large majority despite the Marquis of Ripons' vehement protest against the unprecedented treatment of a Government measure. TRANSVAAL GUARANTEE LOAN BILL. Received August 15, 7.37 a.m. LONDON, August 14. In the House of Commons Mr Winston Churchill, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, introduced the Transvaal Guarantee Loan Bill.