Attempt to Commit Suicide

A man named Collins brought to Auckland yesterday a lunatic named Edward Kelly from liuia Sawmill. Collins states that Kelly came to New Zealand about four years ago. He had recently spent some timo gum digging, but on Saturday last had gone to the Huia Sawmill with Collins. On Sunday morning at i) o'clock Kelly tried to drown himself in a creek near the mill, and threatened to strike Collins with a stick which he had iv his hand if he endeavoured to same him. Collins, however, managed to drag the deranged man out of the watei •

The manager of the mill ordered tt, /W 1 to be taken to Auckland. Servant m"^ 1 took charge of Kelly at the wC t » , * veyed him to the police (station' tf 00"- ■ I charged with being of unsound inindat^ J Police Court this morning ami „ ** medical testimony of Drs" iC,,™ th(i Kenderdine was ordered to be sm»m *? 4 Whan Lunatic Asylum. SCUt to the

Tnat Bad Tongue

MUnANNAFORD;« E LA.TES TGREIv<

We are^urc that, our readers will A regret to Irani that the Hie of th-it^t;i Pl* citizen and most consent» aspirant to Hymenealbliss—T ]{ v ot lord- .has recently been in imminent 2 ami that, too, in consequence of his fonrf ' tor ox tongue. A charaterHicallv o Z^ letter from the versatile pen of t&™» •.Lin, raid at the City Council on Irif* afternoon, dclnilcjl the dread circumS^ with dramnlic vividness, but with rclnek^ tto make the (sorrowful admission that it narrative only excited ninth in i] le yj of our heartless civic fathers. ty e »«„. a Mr Uonnaford'fi communication,, f e ln assured that the *rddcned feelings'which^ may engender will be relieved Tjy thai ilection that the irrepressible advocate I matrimonial felicity in still with us desn"? the insidious influence of thatodioustm,, Auckland, March 14th, 1879.-To*H& Worship the Mayor and City Councillor^ 8 Gentlemen : On the night of !satnr»4 February 22ud, I purchased certain meat of a butcher named lleeves, which 1 proved when cooked, to be utterly unfit for bum«! food. Ou the Monday following 1 <J rew *i attention of the Sanitary Inspector to v who, after having tested it in the ordinari way, took away a portion to submit for thY opinion of Dr Stockwell. 