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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 60, 24 February 1868, Page 50

The Governorship op the Cape op Good Hope. —We take the following from the Otago Daily. Times, 27th January:— The Governor of the Cape Colony has received leave of absence for six months, and it is not expected he will return. A strong Hope is expressed by the Cape colonists that Sir George Grey will be appointed his successor.

Death by Drowning.—The Wairarapa Mercuty says:—A man of'the name of James or Johi Kennedy met his death by drowning in the Tinui River near Castle point a short time ago. "We are unable : to give the exact day. It appears that the unfortunate man was drinking for some days previously at a sly grogshop at Wakataki, and shortly after returning to his work, suffered from an attack of delirium tremens. One of his mates sat up to watch him during the night, but fell asleep. Towards morning on waking, he missed the man Kennedy, and search' was made for him without avail. Two days afterwards his body was found in the above named river, arid buried at Wakataki. Owing to there being no coroner iri the district, the remains were consigned to the ground without an inquest. ’ We riiay mention, however, that the’body was examined and the particulars of the death inquired into by Mr F. Maun s ell, and no suspicion of foul play is entertained. This is not the first case where the victims of accident or suicide have been buried without an inquest in the - Castle Point district, and we hope the Government will, see the necessity of appointing a there as early as possible; and as there has been none in that place since Dr Smith left.. Death op Mr William Garner, op -Wanganui.—Mr William Garner, son of Mr John Garner, of Wanganui, has met his death under very painful circumstances. It appears that for some weeks past Mr Garner’s mind had been considerably unsettled, so much so as to leave no doubt on the minds of his friends but that he was suffering from aberration of intellect. On Friday last he accompanied his brother-in-law, Mr J. Peake, to Kai Iwi, and remained there until Saturday' night, when he to bed between nine and ten o’clock, but almost immediately -got up, dressed, and disappeared.' Search was at once made, but neither, that night nor the next day could any trace of him he found, although so’ine • thirty, horsemen scoured the cquntry in all directions for. miles round. The search was, continued With increased anxiety up to" Tuesday last, when his ; lifeless body was discovered about; 180 yard’s from Mr Peake’s house in a small chasm dvergrnwh with grass, which almost completely concealed it. He had committed self-destruction by cutting his throat whilst laboring under a fit of temporary insanity. At an;-inquest; held, dm the body, the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence. Mi 1 ' Garner was thirty-three years of age, and has. left a wife and six children to mourn his loss. Extraordinary . .Oftss. op . .Drowning. —The' Nelson Examiner says' that 1 one morning lately the-body of arir old main, named Lawrence Devaney, was found in a ditch near the bottom of the Waimea-road, arid it'is'surmised that the poor fellow got drowned on his way home;the. previous evening. . Devaney. was an inmate of the refuge of the destitute poor, who are maintained in'a portion of what are sty led, the Tayauaki buildings, situate.in the Waiinearoa3, a little beyond the’ College, and'notwithstanding -that-he was" very feeble; he. generally tnade a. point of visiting the.town daily. Being a_Very old settler, and having a tongue tipped?with> blarney, the poor old fellow somehow always found.friends to treat him with drink,'arid by the time he started.' homeward of ; ari : evening ' he. was generally what may be described as.“halfseas over.” Such was liis state on Tuesday evening,* about seven o’clock, when he took his' departure from town in the midist of the Heaviest rain ever witnessed, here.! At the ' bottom of the ’ Waiiriea-road a small tun o£ : water passes the- bridge, which.in the heavy downpour flowed jover the' lorirer part’ oLthc' road to the depth perhaps of eighteen inches. This appears to have bewildered the poor old -man; and perhaps" iri looking out for* the L highest ground he got ihto .the - ditch where he was found lying. . was. held, yesterday on his body, whrin^verdict was J giten o£A‘Fburid. f drowned»”vi; ? s -»•,. * v: A. Braye. Yp^T^,-^The. ffiUowpg - appears iaJu J recent xneHallSrat . Courier^ h> ilittie boy; named,:.Robertaon,v aged. nine vyhiist "Hyirig bXick' oiut'o£ nwafer ‘ hblrildfiStliboWhile Rritii?fell m.- ; t : years.'who was ifrDana-streetj'nearirijg the

some six pr eight hjen ;were already standing. - One of them asked the little fellow if he criuld i swira. " Reynolds threw off his jabket l 'and jumped: in immediately, - {and body,: at the of' thehole in :aboriti;fonr feet of . water. It was tqp’hSeayy for him' td lift, so he called to tKemeri ; ,fpr assistance, and When lie as? ■ured them -tbat. it : was not deep one!pf theiri .came iri r and helped him out with the body of the unfortunate child. There were-sigDß of life .in the body when first brought out; but all efforts at- resuscitation wereuriavailiug, and. the poor‘.boy expired. Reynolds deserves- all praise for'the plucky manner* in which’he l acted, and'his condflet put the lobkers-on, who called thetriselves, men, to shame.