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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13456, 5 June 1907, Page 8

• One of the most remarkable attempts at suicide on rejord was witnessed recently at Collingwood, Victoria. A corpulent" old man was floating down the stream, ducking his- head and disappearing at intervals, but making no attempt to keep afloat or to swim asibore. His progress was stopped by two men who happened to be passing.. They went in after him and hauled him, unresisting, ashore. They received no" thanks for their action. Instead of gratitude the predominant feeling in the old man's breast was one of astonishment that he had not been able to sink. "I took off my coat so that it would not catch the air and hold me up," he said,, "and I jumped in near Gipps-street. • I don't know, how it is Uhat I floated, except that I havo not had anything tc eat for a day,' or two,' and have been drinking a lot. / 1 -must' have ; been full of gas." , Constable '■■ -McCullough took charge of the man, who ■ several • time:; expressed his disappointment at' bis- want of success. "I did all I 'could," he said, " I ducked now and then, could not sink." He stated that bis name -was Robert Cox, and that he had been ;• an '.inmate of the v Salvation Army Anchorage," in Collingwood. He jumped! into 'the, river near the refuge, so that in his remarkable journey lie covered about half-a-mile. AT THE CHRISTCHTJRCH EXHIBITION v A special= and gold medal was awarded;' to, , D.G.L. whisky againstall-comers. The points • 'gained by D.C.L. 97 out of a possible 100, ■ the ; next iin order of c merit , receiving j only' 86. '. „ ' ' *