Miscellaneous News.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5437, 29 March 1889, Page 4

Miscellaneous News.

A shocking euicido wa3 cm mitted at Gold-Want, C;.>lliiigwood, Melbourne, on the 11th instant, The facts as recorded in Iho Melbourne Daily Telegraph »ra as follows:— John Embro.v aged about 37, a journeyman brioUlayer, who lived at No. 15 in that street, placed tho muzzle of a revolver in liia month. and, pulling tho trigger, sent a bal crashing through his bruin. His wife was in tho yard when he committed the deed —about half past G o'clock— but heard the report of the weapon, and hastened into a back room, where sho fund Eiwbrow lying on the floor with blood pouring from his month. The weapon was lyin» near him. He was placed in a conveyance and taken tothe Melbourne Hospital by Senior Constable Murphy and Con stable Lewis, but ivni dead whtn admitted. Deceased had been drinking to great excess, and about a week ago his wifo found iv one of his pockets n note in which he referred to a "better place" and directed that his belongings were to go to his boy ; yet it was not supposed he contemplated self-destruction. The weapon waa Btill loaded in four chambers when found. Several daya ago deceased left the house, and his wife reported him as 'missing' but ho c:\nu back on Sa'urday evening. Messr3 Friedlander Bros, Asliburton, have concluded what ig probably onu of the bik'geat individual grain transactions that has over taken place in Ashburtor, for they bought from Mr John OtiVij, «,t Lonsbe^ch, a line of 30,000 sacks (equal to 120,000 buslu-lO'jf whe.it, and 10,000 sacks barley, all for immediatu delivery, The Toronto Gl(-be contains the following remarks on O'Connor the new American champion:— Banian, in his beat days waa not a greater, perhaps nut aa great, an oarsman as O'Connor. And the new champion is an earnest, honest, modest young fellow. Ilia record is clean. Ho ia one in whom Canadians may take blameless pride, and who deserves sympathetic encouragement in the ctt'jrt he will now make to bring back to Toronto the honor which Haitian has k>3t in a remote sister colony.

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