AUCKLAND NEWS.
(by telegraph.— own coubbspondknt.) Auckland. Last Night. A trial shipment <if a hundred tone of maize from tho Eaut Coast is being shipped Hume tiy the ship Columbia. Simon Chapman, sixty-four years old, residing at Norman Hill, Onahunga, placed the muzzle of a rifle in his mouth, attached a strap to hie foot and pulled the trigger. Death was instantaneous. A letter left by deceased shewed the suicide had been premeditated. He had long been confined to his house by illness. Messrs Richards, Fovvke, and MacCormick have chosen the following local cricketers to cj into practice far the match against Wellington :—O'Brien, R. Neill, Hewlett, I. Richards, Arneil, Wilson, A. M. Beale, H. B. Lusk, Fowke. Moresby, Goulstone, Yates, Steitißon, Hawkins, I. Mills, Liiws'jn, T. Neill, Gardiner, Rowe, Lundon and Browning. Rev. W. Gittue, General Superintendent of the Wesleyan Maori Mission, left Auckland this morning by the early Waikat" train to take up his permanent residence at the newly-formed headquarters of the mission at Tβ Awamutu. A large number of friends were at the railway station to see the family off.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3042, 14 January 1892, Page 2
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183AUCKLAND NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3042, 14 January 1892, Page 2
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