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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 64, 26 September 1872, Page 2

The Hfwnilton Amateur Christy Minstrels have kindly consented U> give an entertainment next Monday evening in the school-room, >*garuawahia, the proceeds to bo devoted to the augmentation oi the funds of the library ;in that township. We feel confident that the entertrinment will be a good one, and trust that- the people of 2Sgaruawahia will show their appreciation of the kindness of the amateurs by at tending en mn/fW. We call attention to a concert to take place this evening at Alexandra. The funds will be applied to placing the day-school on a firmer footing as regards its finances. We learn by an advertisement in another column that l)v. Can-will visit the Waikato next week. We have in other places witnessed the wonderful power possessed bv this gentleman, and have no hesitation in recommending all to attend. Dr. Can* can be consulted professionally, and we may remark that

he holds the diploma of the Royal College of Physicians. Yesterday evening, at 20 minutes past six o'clock-, John William Cazaly, one of the directors of the Green Harp Ooldmining Company, died in terrible atjony from strychnine,.administered,as it is believed, with Iho intention of destroying himself. The particulars are as follow:.—A Tittle before six o'clock, Cazalv, after an absence of some hours, returned to his homo in Upper Grey-sirect. He joined his family at dinner, of which he partook, as usual, but appeared greatly depressed in.spirits.. After dinner he retired to his' room, undressed" himself, and went to bed. Only a brief time elapsed when, the family was a'armed by his cries. Hastening to his room, Cazaly was discovered with his limbs drawn together, and uttering cries indicating that he was suffering terrible agony. A messenger- was im.nediatily despatched for i)r Kennedy, and it was only a few minutes before he was in- attendance ;■ but,, during the interval between the time-Cazaly called for assistance and the arrival of medical aid, he had confessed to his family that he had poisoned himself with strychnine. "He had taken sufficient," ho said, "to kill ahorse." { Whe.n Or Kennedy arrived, discovering at once that the-unhappy man had taken poison, he hastened back to-his .surgery to procure such medicines as- might serve as an antidote, but; on : his return' to-Cazaly's room he was a corpse. Dγ Hooper was afterwards called in, but it wasonlv to add his testimony to that of I)r Kennedy, that Cazaly was dead, and that all the post-mortem symptoms went to show that ho had cliod by this the most deadly of vegetable poisons. A small bottle wai discovered near to the de- | ceased's bedside, which, upon being examined, was found to contain a few grains-of strychnine: The bottle was not labelled, and at the time of writing this it had not been ascertained from whom-or how the pokon had been obtained. Judging from the size of the bottle, and the marks round the inside of it, it was reckoned that the deceased must have swallowed from 17 to 20 grains, a twentieth part of which would, have caused death within are hour. A very melancholy part of this fatal termination of Cazalv's career remains to be told. Some months ago the deceased arrived here from Australia, where he had accumulated a large sum of money by mining adventures. He had had many years' experience in quarsz reefs. Upon arriving at Anckland he was induced by l'epresentations made to him to buy into the Green Harp Gold Mining Company. At first he bought with caution; .but, when ho heard the statement, which vra-i afterwarde proved .'to-be so wickedly false, that the trial crushing had turned out so very rich, and the mine promised to make the fortunes of all holding shares in if, Oa*<dU nivesieu die whole ot his accumulated savings. He had been- made a director in consequence of his known wealth, his experience in quartz-reefs, and the , high character he bore for honour and integrity. He was never identified in any. way with those transactions which implicated others, and which led to the longest Police Cour} investigation ever known in the history of the colony. — D. IS, Cross, Sept. 25.