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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1037, 16 February 1882, Page 4

Almost every country has national melody, but the waltz is the music of the “ whirled.” A Rockland man once saw an advertisement in a local paper : “ A sure cure for drunkenness.” He forwarded the necessary dollar and received by return mail, written on a postal card the words“ Don’t drink.” The suicide -of the young man Rhodes at Hororata appears to have been very determined. It is supposed that some love affair had preyed upon his mind, and a few days ago he went to Christchurch and purchased some strychnine, taking a friend te vouch for him to the chemist. He stated he required it to poison rats with. He then took the bottle of poison to the place where the young woman lived, and after some conversation deliberately drained off the contents, first, however, trying to induce the girl to irink out of the bottle. At the inquest the jury returned this verdict : " Cause of death —poison administered oy himself ; state if deceased’s mind inr’Artein '*