DUNEDIN. Last, Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1757, 9 October 1883, Page 2

DUNEDIN. Last, Night.

DUNEDIN, Night.' 'A determined'case of suicide has occurred at Mataura. Peter Matheson,,who lately had somo connection with' lignite at >Waimate Estate, came into Gore, and when there drank heavily. On returning home he went to bed in his hut, and about midnight his mates, hearing gurgling sounds, entered Mathesons apartment and found the man lying with his throat cut. He held a razor in, one hand, and with it had inflicted a terrible gash, extending nearly frqm e^ to 4ar.» The unfortunate man died in a'few minutes. , > ■ '' Four Tapamii bicych'sts rode yesterday to > Opunedin,'-a distance'of 100 miles'. '" A deputation waited, on' the'hon.-Mr Dick to^ay, re, estabJiahment 'two,

i — rr — m — rrrrm — . f , ; . t , r , , reformatories for the colony. Mr Dicjc wa« opposed to the proposal, and suggested that they should interview the Minister of Justice! 1 ' l .".? •' '' ' -^"<"\ FrinctH Dogherty, ft labourer residing *t South Dunedln, was received into the hospital »t<3.4f>this morning,, suffering from a large cut ou'tho right hide' oi the 'head ; he was bleeding very much. , The cut, which was five inched long, was- dressed by the acting resident surgeon. Doghorty got inj'uicd iv this w«iy. A son of liis got marned yebtoiday." Dojjherty > being opposed to the mat riage, is s>aid to have got drnnk in consequence. About two o'clock this morning he wont with an ' axe to .ittack the young ouple sit the hotiao of the bride's father. The police wore sent for, but before they arrived Dogherty had brokeu the window and a' melee had occurred, in the cimse of which he received the cut referred to. The committee of the Dunedin Hospital havo been advised that that institution has received a legacy of £1000 from the estate of Mr Nekou, a watchmaker of Ballarat, who died iv England, and who at one time was an inmate of the Dunedin Hospital.