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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 455, 21 February 1867, Page 3

The Late Superintendent of Nelson. Air A. Saunders, the late superintendent of Nelson, and his family have taken passages to England by the ship Countess of Kiutore. The Examiner, in noticing his departure, thus speaks of Air Saunders’ political career.—“ Air Saunders was one of the earliest settlers in Nelson having arrived here in the Fifeshire, on the Ist February, 1842, but when the settlement fell into distress through the discharge of all the men employed by the New Zealand Company, Air Saunders left the settlement and proceeded to Adelaide where he resided several years. Air Saunders returned to New Zealand about tho time a constitution was bestowed upon the colony, and he soon began to take an active part in public affairs. It was not until the third ses-ion of the Provincial Council, however, that Air Saunders sat as one of our local legislators, and he continued to represent the district of-Waimea South, until he was elected as Superintendent on the death of Mr Robinson, in the early part of 1865. Air Saunders also sat for the district of Waimea in two Parliaments, but was defeated by A 1 r Oliver for the same district in the election for the present Parliament. Air Saunders has always been an advocate of extreme views in public affairs which he supported with considerable ability." Suicide near Kaiapoi.—On Sunday, the 3rd inst., a man named Peter M‘Linley, a sawyer, residing near the Chnrch bush, Kaiapoi, committed suicide by hanging himself. According to an account of the affair given by a local paper it appears that during Sunday afternoon his wife had gone out to a neighbor’s, and on returning home found the doors of the house locked. She then tried to effect an entrance by the back of the house through a broken window, and on lifting a piece of sacking which was O'er the window, saw the feet of her husband dangling in one corner of the room. She at once gave the alarm, and the house was broken into, when on going m the back room the unfortunate man was found suspended by a short piece of knotted rope, evidently formed by knotting several short pieces together. The rope had been past over a joist or scantling near the doorway, and the body suspended within a very few inches of the floor of the room. No reason has been assigned for the rash act further than tbe deceased was at times addicted to drinking, and might ~ Jif famnA»i*w inctnifv Hava Kaod Ui O XXV W* tempted to commit suicide. He was seen bv manv persons in Kaiapoi on Saturday and "last, though appearing duUer than usual did not in any way act so as to excite suspicion.