Mr Edward J. Kennedy, a young and brilliant journalist, and for some time the leading editorial writer on the Alta California, committed suicide at San Francisco. He left a letter to an intimate friend, saying that his disgust for life was the cause. The deceased was a native of New South Wales, and came from there to California when about five years old.
Intelligence from Auckland informs us that on Friday a boat was capsized off Kauri Point. The occupants were William Grosse, commercial traveller; Peter Birley, William Davidson, and Charles Lee, a clerk in the employ of Ireland, Brothers. Lee was drowned; the rest were picked up by passing boats. Lee leaves a wife and children. Up to Sunday the body of Lee had not bean recovered, the sea being too rough for the Water Police to make search with any chance of success.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1061, 15 April 1882, Page 2
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145Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1061, 15 April 1882, Page 2
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