WAIMAKARIRI HARBOUR BOARD.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1856, 4 February 1880, Page 2

WAIMAKARIRI HARBOUR BOARD.

The monthly meeting: of this Board was held on Monday evening. Present, Messrs Wearing (cbairma..), Blackwell, Mathews, and Moore. The annual statement of accounts, audited by Mr Ollivifr, was examined and paßS?d. It was decided that all willows encroaching on the road between the Swing bridge and the Suspension bridge be cleared. The Chairman reported that dredging operations were at a standstill for the present. Messrs Blackwell, Evans and Co., by letter, directed attention to the mud banks off their wharf, which the Board deoided to have cleared as soon as poseihlf. The meeting then adjourned. The annual meeting for election of a chairman, takes place on the 24th.

SUICIDE. A caae of suicide was reported to the polioe yesterday evening. The circumatances of the case are these —A lad named John F. Watson reported to the authorities nearest the scene of the tragedy that a teamster named John ttewart, in the employ of Mr Coup, timber merchant, had committed Buioide by hanging in a whare at Tai Tapu. On inquiry it was discovered that the lad s story was correct, Stewart being found hanging by the neck in his whare, quite dead The rope was attached to a piece of scantlwg in the roof, which was about nine feet from the floor, and underneath was a form overturned, upon whioh the deceased must have mounted and afterwards kicked away. Mr Joseph Judge cut the body down. It appears, as far as can be ascertained, that the deceased had been drinking heavily of late, and on the night previous to the suicide was put to bed by a man named Breeze, deceased being tbe only occupant of the whare. An inquest will be held at the Eliesmere Arms at 4 p.m. today. __«_«