DUNEDIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3569, 16 December 1882, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

December 16.

John Wbimpenny, a clerk in the employ of Messrs Sparrow and Co., was drowned this morning whilst bathing at the Ocean Beach. The body was carried out to sea.

The victim of the railway accident on Thursday night was Henry Martin, aged 19 years. At the inquest on the body, the evidence of the railway officers was that the deceased appeared to throw himself deliberately across the rails, and the jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane.' The deceased had been drinking, as was stated, for the first time in his life. There having been a sale at the foundry where he was employed that day, and drink having been going, the lad had taken too much. He had gone home and laid down, but in the evening he got out of a window, and when spoken to by his mother he said he would go and take a walk and a bath. How he came to think of suicide, as it appears he did, is incomprehensible. The whaler Splendid belonging to Otago owners, which arrived at Lyttelton a day or two ago, has made a lucky find in the shape of a piece of ambergris, weighing, it is said, over 7000 ounces, and worth some £5 an ounce. The find is truly a lucky one, and the ownere are in a state of remarkable jubilation. It has been resolved to give a public banquet to Sir Julius Vogel on Wednesday evening next.