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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 30, 19 February 1879, Page 2

"The roan* Patterson, being of,: unsound ; mind, was sent to tho Asylum as a lupatrc." Tie! news is commpn-rplace, and,; but "top*: often met with m the columns of 3{;ew Zealand journals, but m the man Patterson, who. has now come, to a misfoittune 'worse than death, who would recognise Jamis' Curie Patterson, once the. most brilliant Pressman m Australia. Sixteen years ago hjo ' 'wa-iat the head of his profession m Victoria, cbm : ' mercial editor of the Argtts, and without' a; super ior, as a Parliamentary reporter, fie was engaged a? a Special- Commissioner! to visit every.gbldf^eld' m; the, two Colonies, and repprt upon their, prospects and pro-., gress, and m compliance with thai; mission ;1 ppblished thk volume, '"Tlie. Goldrfields of the Colonies m 1862,"" wihich, bristling with," facts, figures, and statistics, ww long looked uppn the. text-book of. th'e, Victorian. >ni-, ner. After being chief of the Argus H»n-v sard staff, he went to Geelong as editor of "the Advertiser, from thence to. & Hobart ', .. , ' ;. '.:• . „ .. , ■.:. ■. • - * -.*v\;.u.

Town journal, next to the Express, a Melbourne evening ; after which he was m charge of the' Wellington Indep**dsnt,s Nelson Colonist and a number of other New Zealand, papers. Qf late year* that fell <_•_-> troyed of many -n good ioaii^-^mi— -ha» been his bane. I. was his God* andhriU slave ; his career has: been a checkered one. He lost position, reputation, and now the, once brilliant intellect has gone to join tha general wreck, his fate the drivelling inmate of a madhouse. TBefcter, perhap., wovdd it have been for him had never risen aboTehiifirst position of compositor, than rise to fall so low. *■' >-*■' '.-'-.■.. ,