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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 18, 20 May 1867, Page 115

English Mail. —The sa. Wellington, with the English mail, is due here from Southern Provinces on Thursday next.

Melancholy Suicide. —J ust as we go to press a sad report has reached us to the effect that Capt. G. Charlton, at 9 o’clock t-.hia morning, committed suicide by hanging, at his residence, at the Western Spit. Further particulars we are not in a poi sitiou to give at present.-

An Old Inhabitant. —On the 23rd January an inmate of the Romaey Union. Workhouse died at the advanced age of 96 years. She was, we believe, on board Nelson’s ship as servant when he met with his death, so that she was quite an antique, and up to within a few days of her death she had her usual health —rather feeble of course.—Hampshire Independent. Db. Livingstone, the Great African Explorer. —Amongst the announcements of the telegraph (says the Sydney Mail"of April 20) is one which concerns the death of Dr. Livingstone, while on his third exploring expedition in Equatorial Africa. This daring and large-hearted explorer, during an attempt to- detect the parting between the watersheds of the Zambesi and the great, river of Egypt, as well as to determine what connection exists between the Tanganyika and Albert Nyanza Lakes, or in fact to go just one step beyond Sir Samuel Baker in the discovery of the souro® of the Nile, seems to have been surprised in the midst of his party on the western shore of the Nyanza by some savages of the - Mufite tribe, and cut down by a blow from behind. His attendant, who witnessed the encounter, fled to Zanzibar, where the intelligence was received with profound sorrow. Some affect to discredit it, and charge the man who brought it with inventing the tale to account for his desertion of the party. Those who ate best acquain - ted with the circumstances regard the sad nows as ouly too true. If the principle involved in the words attributed to Mark Antony—“l have lost all except what 1 hav® : given away ’ —is correct, how are we to estimate the gain of Livingstone, who has given up ail —ohildren, wife, Belt', in his endeavours to bring the sable ohildren of equatorial Africa within the civilising in- - Jiuences of Christendom ? The proportion® of the sacrifices seem to increase asjve contemplate the nature of his object for which they were made, This is Speke’s portrait of the being for whose -humanisation Living- , stone spent his life —“As his fathers ever * did, so does he. He works; his wife, sells ' his children, enslaves ail he can lay Lauds .' upon, and, unless when fighting for tn® property of others, contents himself witn drinking, singing, and dancing, like a ba- ■ boon.” His mission, .however, has not been prosecuted without fruits, for beyond - the mere humanitarian success, -he has. opened up new' waters lor the keels yf commerce, and he Rbs made some splendid contributions to our geographical and. hydrographical knowledge-.6f ; central Africa. . We now await the arrival of the next mail . to,kno.W;,whether we_ are to ; place another ‘ ■ bhaplqt .upon .the urn that contains the ijh- • perishable memorials of modern British explorers!