HUNG IN EFFIGY.

Evening Star, Issue 3380, 19 December 1873, Page 3

HUNG IN EFFIGY.

Considerable excitement was caused in Christchurch recently by an alarm being raised that a man had hung himself in an open sbed ; but a near approach sufficed to turn feelings of commiseration into amusement, the cause of the alarm proving to be nothing more than an effigy. From a paper found in one of the vest pockets, the figure appeared to tie intended to represent a member of the Provincial and the statement of woes which were said to have led up to the supposed act of suicide was of a very amusing character. The fir-t portion was to the effect that by the time the statement was in the possession of the public the writer would be dead—or ought to be. It then proceed d to say that the writer had endeavored to do the best he could for himself combined with the Province, but had failed, especially in the former. The public were then told that all the sophistries of the unfortunate individual having been exhausted, he was of no further use in this world. Mter this the writing took the form of a soliloquy, the great point in which appeared to bo regret that the suicide had failed to crush kis opponents as he could have wished. The writing then concluded by stating that being put up to auction and no bid offered, death was the only fitting resource for such a useless being. —Lyttelton Timts .