MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 40, 14 November 1868, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Surrey Scdnddrcl sriv"es an account of a singular suicide wSich Has occurred in the parish of Preston. TSe deceased, Harriet Fiajg, was the wife of a gardener employed at pfctcham. She appeared to hive fastJßP^ <*ord to the top of a bedpost, then put her ihead through the noo^e- while kneelinW on the bed; ami while in that position it woul I seem that she opensd a darge vein in her arm with a razor. H^Wg done so, she shut the razor up, laidT' on the l % dge, and becoTnini: v weak fn^k If s \ of blood, fainted, f 11 forwarjJ^H wa'a st~:vnglj£l by t^e core 1 . "jjj^^H Captain i^m. Henry Bell, i^^^H G7th P.^jfc>riK TraS charged a^^H Poi'tsmoJfftPolico Courb, lately, having cor n-jutted a criminal &&s^H on one of hi* servants, a young w^HJH IS years of age. Ilis counsel en^ deavoured to show that it was nob more i than a case of seduction. The Magi3trate, however, committed the prisoner for trial at the Assizes, but accepted" bai', himself in £500, and two sureties in £250 each. Captain Bell's wife was present- during the proceedings, and listened very attentively to the girl's j evidence. . . ; On Satur Jay, August sth, there was' launched from the building yard of Messrs Hall & Co., Aberdeen, a fine clipper of 300 tons B.M. (about 200 ton 3 register), barque-rigsred, and classed 13 years A. I at Lloyd's, to replace the John Williams ship, built by the same firm, which wai wrecked on Savage Island in the beginning of last year. She was namsd the Samoa by Mra. Arthur, wife of the Ifev. Mr. Arthur, local a<TPnb for the London Missionary Socicby ; siul previous to being launched, a Hpecial reli?imi.3 ««rvic.o was conducted by tho Boy. Mr. Gilfillan.