HUNG IN EFFIGY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 610, 26 December 1873, Page 2

HUNG IN EFFIGY.

Ccv'ai lerable excitement was cause! in Christchurch recently by an alarm being raise 1 that a man ha I hung himself in an open shed ; b it a near approach sn(ii:el to turn feelings of commiseration into amusement, the ca"ae of th° alarm proving to be nothing more than an effigy. From a piper found in one of the vest pockets, the figure appeared to be intended to represent a member of the Provincial Executive, and the statement nf woes which were said to have led up to the supposed act of suicide was nf a very amusing character. The first portion was to the effect that by the time the statement was in the possession of the public the writer would bo dead -or ought to bo. It then procee led to sav that the writer bad end" ivorel to do the best he could for himself combined with the Province, but had failel, especially in the former. The public were then told that all theaophistriosof the unfortunateindividual having been exhausted, he was of no further use in this world. After this the writmg took the form of a soliloquy, the great point in which appeared to he regret that the suicide had failed to crush his oppincnfs as he could have wished. The writing then concluded by stating that bein' put up to auction and no bid off red, death was the only fitting resoune for such a nuclear being. —Lyttelton Times.