INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 777, 1 November 1865, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A melancholy stiicide took place in "Wakefield street, Auckland, on the 14th inst. A man named William George "Williams, who had formerly been in business as a painter, was found on Saturday morning in a room in an unoccupied house, in a pool of blood, quite dead. Williams came to Auckland about five years ago from Taranaki, and had been, up till February last, in partnership with Mr Freer, of Wakefield street. Since then he has been in low health and spirits, and only a few days ago left the hospital against Dr Philson's advice. On Thursday Williams asked to be shown through the house where he committed the deed, find the

painter who accompanied him remarked that lie took the bolt out of the back door. He had been seen during Thursday and-Friday sharpening andpolishing a pocketrknife; Friday after the painter, who was working in the house had left, he had gone, into the housag He KM taken a small box into one of - v fEe fr3fl|

roomsj '■■ 3at down on it, and having into hia lieck, behldd the large'artery, and made a wourid/ about an inch and a-half in • length. Thekhif&had dropped from his hand beside the pot, and he had fallen backwards over the box. Fever at a letter lately received by a gentleman in Auckland from Kawhia, we learn .that a description of low typhus fever is raging among the Maories in that district. Three hundred natives have already died from its effects in Kawhia and the immediate neighborhood, and the disease is srtill as violent as ever.