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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 650, 25 January 1869, Page 3

Ei?F£CT3 OE INTE]HEEIIAXC£. — TwOshocking deaths from the effects of drink aro recorded by the Dunstan Times. It says that on a Saturday lately the coroner, Richmond Beetham, Esq., held two inquests at Queenstown, upon the bodies of men found dead in their beds the previous morning, having died during the nighc from the effects of appoplexy being the immediate cause of death. One of the deceased was Cook, a saddler, well known at Clyde and Cromwell ; the other was Kiel], a photographer and artist, who had acquired considerable celebrity on tho gold-fields. Some views lately executed by bim of Lake Wakatipu were admirably executed and found ready purchasers. The occurrence filled people with horror, two men in the prime of their Hues falling victims in one night to intemperance was amply sufficient to create a consternation among a small and isolated community.

A Stage Incident. —The Abyssinian Expedition is the groundwork of a drama being played at Astley'a Theatre. It was one night being played pretty smoothly when suddenly King Theodore came down to the footlights informing the audience that he had not received his weekly salary asked how it was possible he could support his wife and children upon nothing a-week .Receiving no satisfactory reply, he said he could not undertake to play the part. Thereupon the manager rushed upon the stage in dressing gown and slippers, and pushing the fierce Theodore aside, said ha would play the part himself (in dressing gown and slippers) rather than his audienca should be disappointed. Eventually the original Theodore, upon the pronnsa of sa much on account, resumed the performance of his part,