SUICIDE THROUGH REMORSE.

Evening Star, Issue 11153, 31 January 1900, Page 3

SUICIDE THROUGH REMORSE.

WANGANUI, January 30. Percy Brewer, aged thirty-seven, committed suicide this morning by jumping off the Town Bridge, having previously divested himself of bis coat and vest and also his boots. The deceased was suspended from the telegraph office, after twenty-one yeara in the service, fcr irregular habits, which suspension evidently preyed on his mind. This was the 6econd body found in the Wanganui River this morning.

'A TRIP TO CHINATOWN.'

A3 is customary with all the attractions sent here by Mesars Williamson and Milsgrove, there was an excellent booking when the plan w»3 opened at Begg'a yesterday for the six nights' musical comedy season to be inaugurated at the Princess's Theatre on Friday evening by Mr Harry Conor and Messrs Hoyt and M'Kee's Company. The firat four nights will bo devoted to' the production of 'A Trip to Chinatown,' which has proved such an immense success throughout the present lengthy tour of the colonies, and the two final nighca will be taken up by another highly-diverting comedy, entitled 'A Stranger In New York.' For pure light - hearted absurdity, pretty music, and vivacity ' A Trip To Chinatown,' according to all reports, would be very hard to beat. It is impossible to compare it with other musical comedies. Piquant is indeed the word that best describes an entertainmont which pretty well defies description. It is eaid that there is certainly a pjot, but it requires a dark lantern to find it occasionally, and never is it of such a nature as to unduly tax the intellect, but scrve3 merely as a I bread on which is hung such a series of mirth-provoking incidents as would usually 3erve the turn of half a dozen comedies/and which keep the audience in incessant bursts of merriment. The company, headed by the chief funmaker, Mr Conor, have played eo long together that there is never a break nor a drag, and the laughter mounts in a solid crescendo from first to last.