Robert William Symington Grieve 4/9/1842-17/4/1870.

OTAGO.

A strange case of suicide was discovered at the Kaikorai on Tuesday afternoon, when it was found that Mr Robert W. S. Grieve, manager of a flaxmill there, had hanged himself in his own house. As he had not been seen since Sunday night suspicion was aroused, and one of the neighbours effected an entrance. He found the deceased suspended from the roof in a state of nudity. His feet were partly resting on a door mat, and behind him was a chair off which he had evidently jumped. He had made a loop of a silk scarf, to which he added a piece of rope, which was fastened to some pieces of scantling nailed together, and resting on the trimmings of the door, which had been locked from the inside. The window-blinds were down, md from the disarranged state of the bed clothes it is conjectured that he had previously been in bed. A light was seen in the house about 11.30 on Sunday night, and the milk-boy who called at the house on Monday morning knocked several times, but was not answered. The deceased, who was a civil engineer, was unmarried, about 30 years old, and a native of Edinburgh. He was well known here, and came to the colony about five years ago in charge of the Government dredging machinery, which was afterwards erected in the Exhibition building under his superintendence. He was subsequently contractor for and superintended the work carried on by the little dredge Pioneer. It is supposed, that recent pecuniary losses preyed upon his mind and led him to commit this act. At an inquest held at the Argyle Hotel, Kaikorai Valley, before Mr T. Hocken, the jury returned a verdict that "the deceased Robert William Symington Grieve committed suicide by hanging himself, while in a state of temporary insanity, at the Kaikorai Talley, on or about the 17th day of April, 1870, in the passage of the house he lived in."  -Wellington Independant, 28/4/1870.

LEGAL NOTICES. 

ORDER OF JUDGE. 

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND, OTAGO.AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT. 

In the matter of Robert William Symington Grieve, of Kaikorai, near Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, Civil Engineer, deceased intestate. UPON reading the Affidavits of John Bevin and Alfred Chetham Strode, I do order that Alfred Chetham Strede, Esquire, a Curator of the Estates of Deceased Persons, shall be Administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits of Robert William Symington Grieve, deceased, and that this Order be published in the Otago Daily Times newspaper, as "The Intestate Estates Act, 1865," directs.

Dated at Dunedin, this second day of August, 1870.   -Otago Daily Times, 8/8/1870.

Southern Cemetery, Dunedin