WELLINGTON.
This day. A man named Robert Bolt, a Wairarapa labourer, who has been on the spree for some days, attempted suicide yesterday by striking himself several .times on the head with a sharp edged axe. He is severely but not seriously wounded. The same man under the influence jof driuk attempted to cut his throat in Nelson some fcwo and a half yeai'B ago.
Sunday
The'mau Dewar, who was stabbed at the Hutt, in a drunken fray, some months ago, died in the hospital last night from the effects of the wouud?, £[w assailant's
trial was postponed from last sessions, as Dewar was too ill to appear. The charge will now be a more serious one. The name of tho seaman killed aboard the Hawera, at New Plymouth, yesterday was McGeiu.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3952, 29 August 1881, Page 2
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132WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3952, 29 August 1881, Page 2
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