SUICIDE.
[PBHSB ASSOCIATION TELBGEAM. I WELLINGTON, June II
Hambra George Mackay, aged twentythree years, a carpenter, who was lodging at Kirk's Hotel, got out of bed at eight this morning, and deliberately cut his throat. Death ensued in three minutes. His wife,, Bleeping in the same room, endeavored to match the razor, but was too la e. Mackay only arrived from Glasgow per the Westport, and since then has worked for Holley and Ewing, Wellington. From a letter written to the deceased by his sister, it would appear he had o friend in Wellington named Grant. Mackay was a very sober man, but subject to fi a of melancholy, the only i attributable cruse being what he considered an incapacity for work.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2551, 12 June 1882, Page 3
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122SUICIDE. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2551, 12 June 1882, Page 3
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