On the evening of the 29th July, a sailor named William. Armitage attempted to commit suicide in Lytteiton harbor. It appears that he was sitting in the cabin of the ketch Smuggler, when he suddenly rushed on deck and jumped overboard. A fisherman named James Snoswell heard the splash, and succeeded in rescuing the man. Armitagewas taken to the Canterbury Hotel, and, it beingascertained that he was laboring under deiirurn tremens, he was afterwards lodged in the stationboose.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 710, 19 August 1869, Page 3
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78Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 710, 19 August 1869, Page 3
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