WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4645, 23 November 1883, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day. The Hon. E. Mitchelson arrived by the Takapuna "at 1 o'clock, and will be sworn in before the Governor at 3 o'clock, and immediately take the portfolio of Minister of Public Works. Mr Johnston has re« signed that portfolio, but remains in the Executive Council without a portfolio. The Rev. James Henry Luke, a wellknown Wesleyan Minister, died hero last night. The decisions on the applications for the appointments of Town Clerk, City Engineer, and Assistant Engineer, is postponed for a week. Suicide of a Minister. The Rev. W. Sheriff, a Presbyterian minister, from Waipukarau, Napier, committed suicide at 8 o'clock this morning at the residence of Mr John McLean, Newton. At the hour mentioned the door of his bedroom was burst open, when deceased was found hanging from the bed-post by a strap, and quite dead. It is believed that he was suffering from temporary insanity,, and that the reason of his visit here was to be placed in the asylum. An inquest will be held. Later. The Rev. William Sheriff, who committed suicide, was aged 42, and a native of Aberdeen. He" has been mentally depressed for some time, and came here for the benefit of his health. He leaves a wife and 6 children at Waipukarau. He formerly resided at Blenheim.