BRITISH COLOMBIA.

Southland Times, Issue 891, 31 January 1868, Page 2

BRITISH COLOMBIA.

j Onr files of the Victoria Colonist and News are to the 12th inst. Governor Seymour delivered an address at the New Westminster Agricultural Fair. The Colonist has the following,—"A private letter from London, of date Sept. 27th, states positively that the seat of Government will be fixed by royal proclamation at Victoria. The news, we think, is thoroughly reliable." The Colonist of the 9th has the following sad story. Another melancholy case of suicide occurred yesterday in Victoria. A man named Charles Youug, a native of Beath, Ayrshire, Scotland, lately from Australia, strangled himself at a house on Government-street, between the hours of seven and nine o'clock, by buckling one end of a leathern strap about his neck, tying the other' end to the post of his bedstead, and then bearing down so as to preclude respiration. Deceased once occupied a prominent position in Australia, where he married ; but after a few years his wife left him and came to California, whither he followed, and after a long search discovered her one evening ' singing upon the stage in a Melodeou. The discovery so exasperated Young that he sprang upon the stage and attempted to kill her. The woman escaped badly injured, and Young subsequently came to Victoria, and remained for some time in the employ of Wilson and Murray. Latterly, he drankvery fraely, and only three days ago appeared in Court to prosecute a man whom he charged with having stolen a case of brandy and a sack of flour from his cabin. Dr Trimball has been elected Mayor of Victoria, vice M'Donald, incumbent.