LUMSDEN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 4 March 1882, Page 14

LUMSDEN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESI'ONDENT.)

February 27th. Bishop Nevill paid us a visit last week, and conducted Divine service in the Lumsden Public Hall on the evening of the 22nd, after which the members of the church formed themselves into a cwninittoo for the purpose of pushing forward church matters in tho district.

The Rev. Dr M'Grcgor has delivered a snrioß of lticturyb iii aid of Uio Cuuda-y-soho^l and

public" library respectively, with favourable results. His last lecture was entitled " Secularism." A most determined attempt to commit suicide was made here on tho 22nd by a man named Thomas Michaelson. It appears that as the Kingston train was leaving Waimea siding the guard was informed that a passenger was attempting to leave the train, which fortunately had Constable Dunnett on board. The constable immediately took the man in charge, as he suspected from his manner that something was wrong. Upon the arrival of the train there he was conveyed to the lock-up and stripped of anything he might have in his possession, so as to frustrate his expressed intention of ending his life. On the constable's return in a_ short time he discovered him in the act of tearing his blankets into strips and tying them in knots, whereupon the constable proceeded to get assistance, and on his return found the man suspended by the rope he had improvised, which was fastened above the door. To cut him down was the work of a moment. This done, he was brought to consciousness and secured till next morning, when ho was taken to Invercargill. I hear that Michaelson was recently in the employ of Mr Butement at Lake Wakatipu, but on the recent death of his father he became entitled to a considerable sum of money, and since the-re-ceipt of the remittance became strange in his manner ; consequently his removal to Dunedin for medical examination was advised. ,He was pronounced, sane. This isthe result. ■ At the sitting of the R.M. Court held here on the. 25th G. Tucker, of the Royal Mail Hotel, was, on the (information of John M'Kay, charged with a breach of the Licensing Act-rrviz., allowing a game of poker .to be played, on .his licensed premises after. (hours. Owing to the informant not having been served with a summons, and in the' absence of an important witness, the case was adjourned for ono month. The newly-elected -Licensing Committee for Oroti consist of the following gentlemen :— Messrs Cowan, Black, M'Leod, Southern, and Bowtell. We are enjoying most favourable weather for harvest operations,. . v ' in