Suicide of a New Zealander in Melbourne.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6143, 15 August 1891, Page 2

Suicide of a New Zealander in Melbourne.

0 At an early hour yesterday morning (saya the Melbourne Argus of the lafc instant) a man who was walking along the banks of the Yarra, above the city morgue, noticed the body of a man floating in the river, and drew the attention of Const. Malkin, who was on duty at Prince's Bridge, to the circumstance. The constable took the body out of tho water and removed it to j the morgue, where ifc was subsequently identified as that of a young man named William Mitchell Low, 22 years of age, an engine-fitter, who has for some time resided at 45, Peel-atreet, North Melbourne. Low is a recent arrival from New Zealand, where he is said \o be very well connected. Up to 11 weeks ago he was employed at the establishment of Messrs D. Munro and Co., South Melbourne. Since that time he had failed to obtain any employment, and was very despondent in consequence. Beyond this natural despondency there appeared to be nothing unusual thn matter with him, and therefore when he left home before dinner on Thursday evening intending to see about some work and did not return at night no more thun ordinary anxiety was felt by the people of the house. As the body appeared to have been in the water some hours when found, it seema fairly established that Low, disheartened at his ill-success in obtaining work, walked from his home lo the Yarra and committed suicide.

Thus the N.S.W. " Presbyterian " : - 11 Perhaps the saddest feature in the Sara Bernhardt mania that is now in full swing in Sydney is the appearance of so many literary men flunkeying at her skirts, aagor for the smallest crumb of recogni- < tion, as a dog for a bone, and fearful lost Lhe most commonplace remark that falls i irom her lips should escape them— and the t public completely befooled by Sara's , glamour and led like babies in her apron i itrings. Alas 1 Alas !" U