ifcr/Ln inquest was held-at the Hospital on 5 Monday before Mr Ashcroft, Coroner, on , the body of James Alexander Teaze, an j inmate of Mount View Asylum, who died l on Saturday evening. Dr King, Medical. Superintendent, stated that deceased was. received into the Asylum from Palmerston j North on December 28th, 1887. He was at f Porirua for some time, and at the begin ning of July last attempted suicide by cut f ting his throat with a dinner knife, The i, wound healed Quickly, and he was then , sent on to Wellington. Subsequently he. began to refuse to eat his food, apparently , with suicidal intent, and got very thin. > All efforts to induce him to take his food , / failed, and ultimately, about the 15th of , this month, he was fed by means of a soft. indiarubber tube pagged through his , nose into the stomach, When fed • in that way he always attempted to regurgitate the food. On Saturday afternoon last he was being fed in that I way, and witness thought he attempted to ) reject the food, which consisted of egg and , milk. It was quite possible some milk might have got into his windpipe and that, with a weakened heart action, might have caused a collapse. Witness saw him again about an hour afterwards, when he appeared to be sinking, and he died at 7.45 p.m. He considered the cause of death was collapse owing to weakened J heart action and embarrassment of breath ing owing to regurgitation while being fed artificially. Thomas Kelly, head at tendant, stated that deceased said he did not .want to take food or to live. The jury, of which Mr E. Fraser Jones was foreman, returned a verdict m accordance with the medical evidence. Oamabtj, November 25. The carpenter of the ship Pleiades, an elderly man, while going aboard the ship ; about 10 o'clock last night, fell into the ; water, but was rescued alive. However, at : 4 o'clock this morning he died. I Reefton, November 26. j Roxborough's Hotel at Crushington was ] destroyed by fire on Saturday evening. < The insurance on the building was .£2OO in the Standard Office. 