A WOULD BE SUICIDE

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 119, 28 May 1885, Page 3

A WOULD BE SUICIDE

jfcmos was made in a recent issue of m paper to the effect that a prisoner jj the Mount Eden Gaol named Boulton uj attempted suicide by opening an iSrvof his arm. Care is usually taken Srtocourrences of this kind are not Sowed to leak out beyond tho prison i and the head officials of the gaol were mftful respecting the fact being made viunra While they have been clamouring tow Inquiry into the cause of the inforr«tion leaking out, the prisoner has made ■Tether attempt to kill himself, strangling hfre the method adopted this time, tot be wfts uniuccessful. Boulton was nldieally examined to-day, and committed jothe Lunatic ABylum, whithor ho was rc,ioved at noon.

jh Dowden will hold a sale of plants, jhrata, etc., to-morrow. Tie funeral of the late Mr Robert Graham took piece this afternoon. The cortege, fhich comprised upwards of 30 carriages, gi the residence, Emily Place, at 2 p.m for H. Mark's Cemetery, Kemuera. The chief jdnmera were the decoased's children, JleeanHorne, Wilson, Cruickshank, and Eirkwood. The funeral was furnished by Msasrs Winks and Hall.

A somewhat serious accident took place inlay at the Auckland Timber ComMay's fautory. Robert Pinder, of Hirtetfc-Btrt«t, Newton, while employed 4 the buzzar machine, had the tips i three of the fingava of hia right bud crushed and lacerated, and the noils KWedout. He lost a good deal of bood. B» injured man was sent to Dr. Tennent'a jugery, where hia injuries were atteuded felt will be some time before ho will bo life to resume work.

At a meeting held in the Pitt-street fdteyan «chool-room last night, in conKttion with foreign missions, a resolution wpaßsed pledging the meeting to prayer d liberality ia support of these missions. iiohu Gittos presided, and addresses m delivered by Revs. H. Bull, R. Bavin, ti A. Smith. The collection amounted to 9111s lOd.

to extraordinary f,'enornl meeting of Aieholders of the Now Zealand Sugar fapany vas holJ at noon to-day for tho mmaeof confirming certain amendments • the articies of Association. Tlio prowdings woro private.

An lale <rf Skye gentloman, writing to no of the Inverness papers, suugoats that theßritiflb Government should despatch the tar Donald McCaig, parish minister of Ifackairo, Argyleshire, to Now Zealand for tlspnrnose of making arrangements with our Government for the introduction of Bsbtidean immigrants to the colony. Mr McCaig, who is a candidate for tlio reprewrtatioD of North Argyleshire in the Imperial Parliament at the ensuing nnenl election, may ba said to be fts Dr. Lang of the Highlands, ttm the ability and fearlessness he disnJaya in attacking public abuses and opmiuons of every description. Ha has ivSy espoused the cause of the crofters, tdiiwrously remonstrated with Mr Glaflte«i tho subject. At the meeting of tin Osneral Assembly of the Church ot tofland. in May, 1884, Mr McCaig made li mark in ecclesiastical matters, and Imoghtdown Principal Tulloch and one or tm more of the ecclesiastics of that Ooieh a note or two. Mr McCaig was at netime assistant to the famous Rev. Dr. Sn^McLeod, of St. Calutnba's Gaelic a«ch, Glasgow.