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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3067, 12 January 1894, Page 4

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Sad drowning cat*. • ■;/ Auckland, Thursday.— A «adoaae of drowning occurred yesterday morning to a young married lauy; * lirs ~Kirlrrn>Ti ) wife of - Kirkman, school teacher of the Kaipara Heads and daughter of Mrs Murdoch, ; of Beach Road, Devonport, being found floating a corpse in theharbor. Mrs Kirkman had for a considerable time past toties suffering great pains in the liead and cc^npUined that she waf driven ai^ most distracted. She had bten staying with her mother at Beach ]£o*d, Devonport, she went to bed as usual on Tuesday niffht taking her little two year old child with her. The presumption isthatshehadawakeneo 1 in the night with t>ain, lither candle and left the house in her intense pain and rushed she knew not where. > At the inquest the jury returned an open Terdict, finding that deoeased came to her death by drowning, there betes; no marks of violence on the bodyi bttt that how she came to *b» in tfk» waUfr, there was no evidence to show* ; ' ' Char** dlsmifcttit kycKtAXD, l!hiirsday.---!die.QajM against the youth Henry .Hogjuii charged, some time ago with hating committed an unnatural offence at Panmure, was heard before Mr Northcroft at the Police Court yesterday after hearing the evidence for &© prosecution, His Worship dismissed the information without calling on the deience. < ( IVew ZeavlsiiMl la«urs>nee Co Auckland, Thursday.— The aamital meeting of shareholders in f&n^Niw Zealand Insurance Co. was heldjres* terday when the report an 4 baUnoe sheet were adopted. > '' ■ ' tto«<itbofiiishopniii ;: AvcKLAim, Thursday .—A profound sensation was caused ; yejteraay throughout Auckland when it beoame known that ft cable message Tiad t>een received announcing the death of Bishop and Mrs HilL ''"' - Mr Hill arrived in Auckland in January 1879. He left for Tauranga, and after' being there some time returned to Auckland and took up his alk)d^at Parheil. ' v ; -" X !'" v /i '■—. ■■ Mr and Mrs Hill left Auckland for England in 1891. •<- Mlbi ni expert. g AucKLAifD, Friday.— The Hon. A. J. Cadinan left Auckland via MmiA^, for Wellingten Ijy the noon train y^rday.; . The Hon. genUeman states Mlclntyre, VictorianMinieter forljandf , will shortly arrive in Auckland, and will proceed to the !)(^amej. h , h ,;■■.;; v 9l»a mls#lo«. :-■=■■■ \X ■ - Opotiki^ Friday.— Thomas Crimmins has been missing since v Wednesday evening, and the worst is feared. f He was under the influence of HquoV when last seen, ■■r-isy.i-.r ) '.>■;',■ -^ Mokonuiarangi, after a. long illness died here yesterday } he was head of the Arawa tribe, and during the Mabri war loyally helped theTlttro- :|*?^ i %Sj5 ll! 2r -i^y? ' i- » vhrfss«aii^;,i|Ba). pognisea his good services by granj^ ing him a pension of £50 a y ear ; ana the right of the ferry ; a great tangi is now going on, and hundreds of natives are flocking ftpm all parts. "J '" •■ f >v -(. : '.'.. Suicide. . i: r : J ; ,j ' Thames, Thursday.— William J. Constant, the well known Hoensee of the Thames Hoiel, committed suicide at 11 o'clock last night by cuttfnff his throat with a table knife. STwas removed to the hospital and died at 3 o'clock this lJiorning. i- -j s !' His health had been indiff erelA f or some time past and said he had been suffering from cancer in tile stomach: he leaves a wife and a large family . Thames, Thursday.— At the iuqueet dif Mr Constant the., jury returned a verdict that r deceased , committed suicide while temporarily insane. »l*«lmrt:e su«|>eiftded. Thursday. — Newtoii Fasw, a bankrupt, had his discharge suspended for three years. . Suddea donth. Gisborhe, Thursday,— A girl named Nellie Fitzgerald dropped dead last night from cerebral disease. Arrivals and departures. Wblunoton, Thursday.— The immigration returns for December so wh arrivals in the colony to be 2,980, while departures were only 1,03 L S llO toj?? 1 amvalairawfraitt New Bouth Wales.