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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 342, 18 January 1866, Page 3

Suicide at Melbourne. —A few minute* after 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, the family of the Eev. Peter Brown, Presbyterian clergymen, residing at Hewthorn, were startled by the report of a gun discharged on the premises. The sound proceeding from the room of Charles Malcolm Browne, a son of Mr Brown, that appartment was entered, and it was then found that that unhappy young man had shot himself with a Westley .Richard’s rifle, which was lying beside him. Medical assistance was at once procured, and it was then ascertained that the ball had entered his chest on the left side, and bad passed out of his back. In spite of all that could be done for him, he expired at a quarter-past nine o’clock last night. A letter written by the deceased, and addressed to his mother, was found, in which he stated that for some time past a gloom had rested on his spirits, and that his life haring become a burden to him he had determined on committing suicide. He concluded the letter with the following words: —“ Farewell friends and acquaintances, farewell father and mother, farewell brothers and sisters; welcome eternity, for weal or woe.” He was about 21 years of age.—Melbourne Herald, 3rd January, Death bt Deowning.—lt is our painful duty to hare to record the death by drowning of Mr G. .Robertson, a clerk in the Chief Post Office, Christchurch. It appears from what we can learn, that the deceased, with others, went bathing in the south branch of the Wairaakariri on Sunday afternoon. He had swam to the south bank, and was returning when he was heard to call for help, and soon after to disappear, whether from cramp or exhaustion, it is impossible to say. Unfortunately, his companions were too far off to be of any assistance, though one of them, Mr C. E. Dudley, who is a first-rate swimmer, made every exertion in bis power. The sad accident happened about 5 p.m., and from a little past that hour up to 8 p.m., men were employed dragging, the river for the body without success.—Canterbury Standard, Ist January. The Muedee at Wellington.— The nnfortunate man Walker, convicted by a coroner’s jury of the wilful murder of his wife on Hew Year’s day, and who. thereafter attempted suicide by cutting his throat, died in the hospital on Saturday , ••-Ibid, 10th January,