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Western Star, Issue 1389, 14 September 1889, Page 2

GKEATEETJL —COMPOETIN Q-. EPPS’S COCOA. BREAKFAST. “Hy a thorough knowledge of the natura law* which govern the operation* of digestion end nutrition, and by a careful application of the line properties of well selected cocoa, Mr Kups ha* provided our breakfast fables-with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors’ bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may bo gradually built ur until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are 11 <ting around us ready to attack where*e. there is a weok point. We may escape many afa 1 shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished rule.”—See article in the *' Civil Gazette*" Made simply with boiling water or milk. ixud if* i lb packets, by Grocers labelled thus : JAMES EPPS (t CO., .‘IOMOSOPATHJO CHEMISTS. HONDO* KNOT,AND. STEAM TO RIVERTON. S S. KAKANUI LEAVES DUNEUiX on >r about WEDNESDAY, 18th mst. Freight delivered jut . -Cure, 1S« per Inn, payable before delivery. Cargo till 11 a m. Wll IT i lls Q HAM Bif OS. & IXSTOXE, A genls.

A nvigt determined case of suicide occurred at Josephine street, Caversham, on Wednesday morning. The Otago D dlv Times flays A man named Arthur Empson, who vrith his wife had recently com" to reside at Darley, Caversham, got out of bed and went into the kitchen to get some tea for himself, having pi eviously knocked out of his wife’s hand a rnp which she had brought him. On getting nio the kitchen ho sc'zel a large bread knife, and proceeded to cut his threat with it. His wife, seeing what he was about, ran outside and called for help to a neighbour, who on going to tho door saw Empson with a terrible gash in his throat. Ho was so horrified at tho Boeotade that he ran off for assistance,ami on his return tho man was lying on tho floor dead. An inquest was hold in the afternoon and evidence was adduced that tho suicide, after inflicting woun 1 s on tho throat with the broad knife, then took up another knife with a saw-hack to it, and so desperate was he that he appears to have used the back part of it, and sawed right through to tho back bone. The deceased, who was 32 years of age, has several times behaved in such a manner as to lead people to suppose be was pf uoeouod mind.