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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1421, 6 September 1872, Page 2

A sailor named Daldry attempted to> commit, suieide in an Auckland hotel on the 2&th ult. by hanging foiruselt. with hi-s comforter. The comforter gave way, and he was picked up. almost, •lead and taken to the hospital* where at latest dates he lay in a very precarious «tate. The Thames Advertise*,, writing of the industrial exhibition,, says :—" One exhibit of great interest was a beautiful carved soup tureen with ladle- This is the work of a Maori residing in Maketu, and was exhibited by Mr Bober Graham. The carving would do credit to the most skilful European artist, and speaks largely for theingenuity and skill of the native. Tho tureen is cut out of a solid block of hivrd native wood. On the outside it is richly ornamented with carvings, and is supported by two natives—one on each side—in a crouching position,, and the hands clasping the dihh, while the faces turned upward project slightly over the edge of the dish. The cover also, made out of a solid piece, is splendidly carved. The handleis formed by the heads of two native* raised from the block and touching, in the centre. The bodies are in gymnastic attitudes, the legs following the circular form of the co>ei and grasped in the hands of the figures. A late Evening Post writes thus: — " Whatever may transpire during the next few days, whether the Ministry go out or remain in, nothing can alter the humiliating position they are placed in. If they are defeated it will piove that even the importance attached to securing Mr M'Lean's services in the Cabinet was insufficient to atone for the shortcomings of his colleagues; and if they escape, they will have the doubtfulsatisfaction of knowing that they have been saved through no merit ot their own, but have been dragged through, the crisis hanging on to Mr M'Lean's skirts." On Sunday night, June 14> as one of the trains forming the excursion of the " Sunday League " to Hastings, on the Brighton line, was returning in«> London-bridge station, one of the carriages composing the tram fell on to its side. It was a vecond-class carriage and fully occupied. The persons inside were thrown on to the. end of the carriage, and were all more or less seriously injured.