Wellington, August 13. An inquest was held at Ormond villa yester day on the body of a man named Hiram Sydney Smith who wan found in a water hole near Norsewood. The evidence dis olosed a terrible state of things. The deceased and a man named Gibson started drinking on the 16th of last month and kept it up to the SOfcb, or as long as the deceased had money ; then Gibson left him to wander about aimlessly in the horrors, and ii is supposed that he made his way to the spring of water where he wg,B found. $nd died there. From letters found on the body it appears that the deceased received £30 since February in two sums from his wife and mother who are in the old country. The verdiot was "found dead," and the jury added a ridw osnßuring Gibson for hu base eonduofe,

Suicide.
Wellington, August 13. A man named Thomas Cooper, recently of Masterton, committed suicide yesterday afternoon at the Pahiatua village settlement by banging himself on a wire fence, .He leaves a wife and five children.
Arrival of the M. M. S. Aorangi.
I Wellington, August 13. Arrived— Aorangi from London via Robert at 2.30 p.m.
Sudden Death.
. Blenheim, August 18. Mortimer, an old man supported by the Charitable Aid Board, died suddenly in the Hospital this morning. He was washing clothes, when he suddenly fell and expired, He has no known relations,

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