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Kumara Times, Issue 992, 4 December 1879, Page 4

It will be remembered that a Chinese gentleman belonging to Dunedin, named Mr Ah Kum, charged hia European wifr, Mrs Mary Ah Kum, to whom he had been married three weeks, with wishing to end the honeymoon by cutting hia throat. At the Dunedin Police Court, on the 24th ultimo, Mr Inspec'or Mallard said that, from icqniries he had made, he could come to no other conclusion than that the “innocentlooking Chinee,” Ah Kum. had told a deliberate lie, and that he had cut hia own throat. Of course, if the informant still persisted in saying hia wife had, cut his throat, the case would have to be gone on with. Here Inspector Mallard asked the informant if he had cut hia throat, and he admitted having done ao. The information was then dismissed, It was proposed to lay an information against Ah Kum for attempting to commit suicide, but on hia Worship’s suggestion it was decided not to do so.