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Wellington Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2551, 30 July 1867, Page 4

Fbeb Pabdon. — By the Auckland Police Oa* zette we observe that a free pardon waa .granted by his Exoellenoy fche Governor on June 13th, to - Simon Peter Burnß, convicted at Auokland on . the 9th September, 1864, of burglary, and sentenced to four years' ponal servitude—^on^ the following condition, viz, that he shall, within seven days from the date of his discharge, quit tho colony of New Zealand, and not return thereto during the residue of the term of the sentene* unexpired. Remabkabks Suicide. — We do nofc vouoh for the accuracy of fche following, as we found it in an American paper: — "When the Polish Count Czapska was some time ago sentenced to imprisonment and herd labor foi; political offences, hie wife went to St. Petersburg!- to beg for his j»r*» don ; bufc, being unsuccessful in her application, she fell infco a state of dejection, and at last resolved to put an end to her life. She seated herself in an arm-ohair which she had : previously surrounded with a quantity of paper, and, setting fire to the combustible material, was found soon afterward by hor servants dreadfully burned, but smiling in the midst of her agony, and firmly resolved to die. She expired two days afterwardf, leaving five children." Shocking Tbagedy in London.— -The follow* ing account of a frightful tragedy is extracted from the European Times: — Late on Saturday night a frightful tragedy occurred at Mr Jamta Strawson's, Bridge House, Whitmore Road, Boston, which resulted in the death of a man and hie wife. On Thursday lasfc, Mrs Strawson' engaged a general servant, named Mary Ann Fletcher, ft fine strong woman aged 23, she stating at the time sho was a married woman, bufc her husband had deserted hor, and left her with two children that were then in the hands. of her mother. At a quarter-past eleven o'olook on Saturday night ft mau entered the bar and inquired if Mary Ann Fletcher waa in. Mrs Strawson went infco tha kitohen and informed her that a man wished to see her, when she replied that perhaps ifc wae her husband. If so, she did not mind seoing him, M she had nothing to be ashamed of. The man then went round to the baok kitchen that is sitnated in tho rear of the baok parlor, and Mre Strawson had just reaohed the bar after leaving them together; when the report of two pistols was heard proceeding from the kitohen. Upon entering, a frightful spectacle presented itself. Ther* was the husband, Henry Fletoher, lying on th* ground, with a pistol in his hand, another pistol lying on the floor. The blood was running from a dreadful wound in the man's right breast. Oa the other side was fche poor woman, her olothee saturated with blood from a wound in the right side. She was exolaiming,' " Oh, Harry, Harry, how could you be so cruel !" It is presumed that upon Mrs Strawson leaving he may have takea oufc fche pistols and discharged one, afc his wife, then the ofcher afc himself, for the repdris followed each ether ih quick succession. Upon the arrival of a surgeon he pronounoed the man to be dead. The woman was taken up Btairs, but despite all the attention she received, death put an end to her sufferings by 12 o'clook. In the pookets of the man were discovered several large bullets to fit the pistols, a canister of permission rifle caps, some powder, his marriage certificate, and 25s 7d in money. Litebaby.— The Lancet, of May 20, statea thafc Mr John Oxenford, the dramatio otitic of tho Times, and fche author and adapter of eeveral plays, is now dangerously ill. Strange to cay, while he haa. been lying on .his siok bed he hi» come into possession of two fortunes — one of £30,000, from his father, and' another of £11,0001, which accrues by the death>f 'ft' TP>7 dwbw* relative. •' " '."" A \-$j