SUICIDES.
A young woman named Moore committed suicide at Paruwauui, on Feb. 27, by eating match-heads.
A telegram was received on March 11 at the Auckland Police station from the postmaster at Rawene, Hokianga, stating that Edward Lennan, one of the village settlers at Motuknraka, had committed suicide by hanging himself in one of the back rooms of the Kohukohu Hotel, where the body was found suspended that morning. Deceased was a single man, but his sister resided with him on his selection. Ha was a printer by trade, and had for some time besn employed on the Northern Luminary, Kawakavra, Kawakawa.
An elderly man named George Hodsoo, ! about b'O years of age, hung himself from I the branch of an apple tree in a garden j where he resided, at Blenheim. He was in I a weak state of health, and had been under ' a doctor's care for some time.
j Ellen Walker, wife of Thomas Walker, ; secondhand dealer. Manners-street, Weij lington, threw herself off the breastwork lon February 20, and was drowned. Do--1 ceased hud not been home for some days.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9774, 22 March 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)
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