DEPLORABLE SUICIDE AT MOTUEKA.

Colonist, Volume XXVI, Issue 3709, 10 September 1883, Page 3

DEPLORABLE SUICIDE AT MOTUEKA.

On Saturday morning our Motueka correspondent telegraphed that Mr T. B. Brownsdon, a retired paymaster of the British Navy, and who has long resided at Motueka, had Dot been Been since eleven o'clock the previous eight. This news was supplemented by the information I hat the body oi the deceased had just been discovered lying at the bottom of the Motueka'Biyer, at a point between the bridge and the bouse of Mr E. Staples,. It was also stated that a note hai been found under the pillowof the deceased gentleman, in whioh he said he had been mubh troubled in hie mind of late, and wished Mra Rumbold. and her family, with whom lie had been living, good bye. Our correspondent further states that the event has oast a gloom ovar the whole village, as the deceastd wai much regpeoted. We may add that the trouble he referred to was of sDch a, oharnoterthatl ifc_ w,ould. s not have been felt but by a itnsitiTe innooent man, for within a week he would have cleared himself from a very trivmVohJarge, and have maintained his honor end the respect due to him. The sad event" if made the more deplorable by the fact that his resolution to take his own Ufa was to rid bitnielf of trouble whiohho war advised would ipe«diiy f be ended. ■ »i-:Ji;'';; '■': !''vl''''-i^'':'i 'I.'"''' '* :'r •>'■&■<* 'liiiiiiUii'/-. To Coreespondentb.—" Paterfamilias."— Your communication will appear' ia -4omorrow's issue. It came'too lite for this issue. .., r: , .; ; .' .• Thb Late SESSIOH.--Very*fewiwiil be inclined to regret that the eesiion of 1883 is now ■it on end, unless it. be the Otago iuemkeis who will now have to carry on their quarrelling lesa prominently. On Saturday ha 1 Meß3i'9 H. A. Levestam and Hurgthous) M.H.R.'s, arrived in Nelson on their re! urt from Wellington, and Messrs Barnico&t ■ Shephard, and Richmond, are expected bud ob Tuesday next; H■ ■,% 'c»J. .% a^Ail.

DHUNKBNNEBB.—On Saturday night a man turned Patrick Cdnway oreated Borne die— tUrbunbs in Bridge street. He was very quarrelsome, and ultimately wag taken to the Police Station, and charged with being drunk and disorderly. He will ba brought up this morning. Thb Anisbfd Yaxlkt CorPBB Mine— The new Company reoentlj formed to work this mine is already making progress. It baring been decided to put in a drive slightly above the level of tho creek to intercept the bottom of the old iliafl, tho drive has been oanried in a distance of-32 f«ot. In a few ilioiilri ro'icb the'jdpU. "" A" iJisaBAOEiOL Scene.—Yoiterday 'morning a very disgraceful scene was enaoted in the neighborhood of Victory Square'; where one woman and some men were indulging in a drunken orgie. The police having been communicated with, the woman, whoie,name is' Aunie Brown, and who was only liberated from gaol a few weeks ago, and & man named James M'Coombe were taken to the Lock-up. The man will bo charged with drunkenness,' and the woman, who was sentenced at Westport under the Vagrancy Act, will be proceeded against under the same Act. A tebx large numbsr of people took advantage of the opportunity last Friday and Saturday evenings to inspect the splendid assortmont of English furniture, which is to be sold at eleven o'clock thw morning, at Messrs James and Oo.'i auction rooms. Synopsis o* New Advbbtiskmkntb.—ln our advertising columns this morning will be found the following new announcements :— Mr Jam esKobertscn, of Brightwater, basjfcwa •heep dog's for sale; tenders^ are invited! for the purchase of the property lately oeoupied by Mr Charle 3 Raikes ; it is announced that the Waimea Rifles' annual ball takes place on Thursday evening nex ; the Wakefield Bellringer*'notify a concert to be held on Friday evening, 14th inst.; the subject of. the host address at the Church of Christ is "Tho Church for the Man, Lot Man r or \ht Church ;" the Suburban North Road Board gives notice of levying a rate of onehalf-penny, in the £on a'l ratoAble property; Mrs W. V. Salter has an advertisement regarding pa(«rns, &c. 5 Sharp and Sops announcer (hat they will sell by public auction on the 6th Oo'obt* the properties of the late E. Buxton, Esq. '■''.'' Mb Gkobqe Hill, an old Bv_rlr»«v rpsidect, thrice Mayor of that city, and ioc fifcy yean a Justice of the Peace, died recently. , The School Board of Advice Conferonosin Victoria has re-sffii'med the necessity of abolishing night sohooli. y ■>,■ A State system of technical education is to be established in New South Wales. Hops are now so dea- in the Old Country, that they are called brewers' diamonds, and £50,000 worth is not an uncommon stock on hand at n large brewery. At the present time Messrs Cargill and Anderson have no fewer thau 80 men employed on their land engaged in the destruction of rabbits, says the Roxburgh paper. 'Some are ( poisoning, some are shooting, some are ferreting, and others are at work with dogg. Between 70 and 80 ferrets are at work, and they make mak6 short work of their natural enemies, the rabbits. One or two weasels have also been brought from the Old Country but have suffered very much from the voyage. This is not to be wondered at, as they live almost entirely on blood. They are much superior rabbitters to the ferrets.