THE NORTH.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2154, 1 April 1870, Page 2

THE NORTH.

The Hon. Mr Seymour has been elected Superintendent of Marlborough by 11 votes. No less than three suicides have been committed in Auckland within the last few weeks, says a contemporary. Particulars of the third have just reached us. The unfortunate man is Mr Edward Penny, of Mongonui, who was found by his daughter on the morning of the 24th ult., hanging by the neck, in one of the rooms of the house in which he resided. It appears that he was under the belief that some one had robbed him of LBB, aud under depression of spirits from his supposed loss, he is supposed to have committed the rash act. The money was found shortly after his death in a box, where he, no doubt, had deposited it, and forgotten the place. Upwards of fifty red deer have been seen in the neighborhood of the Brookstreet Valley Ranges, Ne'son. His Honor F. A. Carrington (Superinteudent of Taranaki), has issued an address to the electors of the Omata District, offering to represent them in the House of Representatives during the forthcoming sassion of the General Assembly. From a return published in the New Zealand Gazette we notice that Westland has grown 451 bushels of oats, 20 of barley, 214 tons of hay, 1325 tons potatoes ; the total number of acres under crop was 1095. A public meeting was held in Auckland on the evening of the 21st, for the purpose of taking steps to establish a Ragged school Association. His Excellency the Governor presided, and there was a large attendance of the leading citizens The following resolutions were unanimously carried: —“ That this meeting regards with grave and conscious sympathy the ignorance and debasement of a large portion of the juvenile population of this city, and acknowledging the obligation by every possibje means to remedy the existing evils and prevent those naturally springing therefrom, earnestly desires the establishment of a Ragged School, aided by whatever agencies may best meet the necessities of the poor or outcast for •whom no remedial or educational provisions at present exist.” “ That the acknowledged abandonment of so large a number of our population to unmitigated mental, moral, and spiritual destitution is a standing reproach J o our professed Christianity, and emphatically calls for the exercise of increased zeal and energy by (ho churches of Christ on behalf of all such institutions as may subserve the purpose of its amelioration.” A very painful case of lunacy (says the Southern Cross) came before the Bench at the Auckland Police Court lately. It appeared from the medical testimony adduced that Dr Riley, late house surgeon of the Hokitika Hospital, has become of unsound mind, having, according to the statement of his landlady, kept the house in a state of terror by walking about with a loaded pistol in his possession, which he refused to give up. Ho had also recently slept with the pistol under his pillow, Cn being interrogated by the doctois, he complained of Lis head being bad, and appeared to have lost all.memory as to dates and circumstances. Dr Riley had only been about six weeks in Auckland, having come up from Hokitika, where he held a highly respectable position, and was much esteemed by a large circle of friends. His ailliction has caused much sorrow amongst Ids many acquaintances in Auckland. lie was, on the 2nd inst., committed to the Provincial Lunatic Asylum. A Mr Horn died suddenly at Napier the other day. A post mortem, examination of the body showed that Mr Horn had at some former time, although it appears unconsciously, swallowed a piece of wire resembling a common pin, round wbicb an abcess had gradually formed until it terminated in death. A woollen manufactory is about to be established at Taranaki, and the Provincial Council of ihat Province have given a subsidy of L 205 to the promoters. Hie Borough Council of Hokitika are calling for a loan of LSOOO, and Mr Charles Reid has been appointed to negociatc it in