INVERCARGILL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1137, 2 September 1882, Page 2

INVERCARGILL.

This Day. Jas. Morton, well known as a taxidermist, committed suicide this morning by taking a quantity of arsenic. He is supposed to have taken half-un-ounce. His wife noticed him vomiting, and Sent for a doctor, but the deceased gradually got worse, and died. He left a memo., in which he todk leave of his wife and fumiy, and forgave all his enemies, and all people that on earth do dwell. De-

ceased was a clever naturalist, but had given way to unsteady habits of late. BALCLUTHA. The body of Fergus Fergusson, the accountant of the Colonial Bank, recently drowned while bathing, was found this morning in the river, a little below Stirling. DUNEDIN. This Day. At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce the following resolution was passed : “ That this Chamber have learned with surprise, and regret, that the subsidy of £40,000 proposed by the Government for the establishment of dircet steam service between Great Britai i and New Zealand was reduced hy the House of Representatives to £20,000. That the last named sum is in the opinion of this Chamber cpiite inadequate to secure such service, and this Chamber therefore earnestly requests that the resolution may be reconsidered by the House, and such sum be voted as is likely to secure so desirable an object. That these resolutions be forwarded by telegraph to the Hon. the Treasurer and city members, and that all Otago members be requested to support the proposal that a copy of resolutions be telegraphed to the Canterbury and Invercargill Ch? nbers of Commerce inviting their co-opera ion. AUCKLAND. This Day. Dr. Richardson, who attended the girl Sarah John ton throughout her fatal illness, states in a published letter that he suspected poisoning from arsenic or corrosive sublimate from the first, and treated her accordingiy- . William Waters, the well-known horsebreaker and sportsman, has been with an apoplectic fit, and is dangerously ill. CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. I *.ter details of the at Rrngiora show that it was a irc«t deaerate ana determined act of Carpenter, who hanged himself on a gum tree, from which he had coolly cleared away a number of small branches that interfered wi';h his movements. He leaves a wife and six children quite unprovided for.

TIMARU. This Day. No ti-me Iws yet been found of Mr S. W. Tabe, i a^en' o ’Tio hrs been missing since Wed 'end?.y ; tbe police and a large number of private persons have been out searching all day, and dragging the creeks south of the town, but without any result. A young child named Irvine was found dead in bed at Wpshdyke yesterday morning. An inquest*will be held. ASHBURTON. This Day. A very brilliant meteor passed over the town last night, travelling in a S.W. direction ; residents at Seafield, a place near the Coast, report that two shocks of earthquake occurred at 11.15 and 11.25 last night, which stopped the clocks.