SIXTY YEARS AGO FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1862. HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. MURDER, FRATRICIDE, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18625, 5 August 1922, Page 8

SIXTY YEARS AGO FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1862. HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. MURDER, FRATRICIDE, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Information was received in town last night of the enactment of one of those ' fearful tragedies which happily are of such (infrequent occurrence as to startle and appal the mind. A person known as Gaptain Tibbetts, in the Matnura district, has murdered one man and afterwards attempted the life of his own brother, who, in selfdefence, shot him down, and then, horrified* by what he had done, endeavoured to put., a period to his own existence. . . . It' ’ was generally known that Captain Tibbetts had some time previously had an attack of delirixm tremens. It is therefore charitable to suppose that ho was not in his right , mind when he committed the' murder, or when he made the attack upon his brother, which led to the melancholy circumstance of his falling by that brother’s hand. .■ . . GREAT MATCH AT BILLIARDS, FOR £SOO A-SIDE. Yesterday’ evening the Royal Princess Theatre was «mverted for the nonce into a gigantic billiard saloon, the theatre having been engaged for the great, match between Mr Lamb, of Victoria, and’ Mr Townsend, a gentleman amateur of this Province. Great interest had been excited, from the known proficiency of both players, .and about 100 persons assembled in the theatre to wi.tnesg the play. ... In his last break Lamb easily scored out, the game standing—Lamb 1000, Townsend 915. The game was concluded at ten, minutes past five o’clock. . . . FARLEY’S ARCADE.—SATURDAY , NIGHT. (From our Special Reporter.) Farley’s Arcade is like no other in. the known wide, wide world. It is not like the Burlington; Arcade, in Piccadilly, nor the “Lowther” in the Strand.' Nor the one in Soho, nbr that in Oxford-street; but it is a combination, or a concentration, or, let me say, a compound amalgamation of the whole, with a great deal that is original and unique added. ... It is an inlet and an. outlet, a rendezvous—a trysting place. There is no word or number of words in the English language which could convey to, a. stranger what. Farley’s Arcade is or is not like. It is an Otagoniarf / phenomenon, which, if even it is properly described, must be-dona by some coming man. Sale might make something of .it; so might a Dickens; so might, perhaps, a Thackeray,, but it would require the concen- J (rated talent of all those three to do it justice—and than only scant justice after all. ... . . -