DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3428, 17 December 1879, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Last night.

Forgery by a Clergyman.

A gentleman named Arthur Graves was charged at the City Court this morning with forging the name of Archdeacon Edwards on a promissory note. He arrived from homo in the Hermoine recently acting as nhaplain on the voyage, and preached in All Saint's Church here on the 7th. His credentials profess to be signed by the Bishop of Carlisle; but it is said that he was prohibited from preaching before leaving for this colony. In conducting his defence to-day he made some extraordinary statements, and endeavored to make out he was ignorant as to the nature of a promissory note, the ■übject of the charge. After his committal, Archdeacon Edwards suggested he should be medically examined as^to his sanity. A painfully sudden death occurred in town early this morning. Mr GHkinson,^ who arrived from Glasgow a couple of months' ago with the intention of settling in this district, went to church yesterday evening in good health, afterwards spending a little time with his family, when he retired to rest about his usual hour. He wa3 shortly afterwards seized with a paralytic stroke, and expired at four o'clock this morning. The deceased was about 60 years' of age, and leaves a large family. Prior to the collapse of the Glasgow bank, which affected his commercial position most disastrously, Mr Gilkinson occupied a leading position in Glasgow, he having been senior bailee of that town, and identified with many social and political movements. The credentials which the deceased gentlemen brought out with him to the colony showed that he was greatly esteemed by the people of Glasgow.