FATAL ACCIDENT.
INQUEST IN THE KING COUNTKY.
Mr Gresham, the district coroner, held an inquest on Friday at the Mangatea settlement beyond Te Kuiti. The subject of the enquiry related to the death of a native boy on the BtH in|tant. The jury consisted of four Europeans and two Maoris. Mr John Moonlight was chosen foreman. Mr William Bpnd acted as interpreter. From tlie evidence of a native lad named Te Rahi, aged about fourteen, it appeared that on Friday, Bth instant, the deceased (who was four years old and wWo was a younger brother of the witness) and the witness were at Fauatekona. This isaspotsituatedequidistantbetweenMokau and The Tunnel. A storm came on, and in order to obtain, shelter the two boys were/making for a whare. In passing through the bush a falling branch of a tree struck the deceased, fracturing his skull and causing immediate death. The wife ness ran at once to their father, who with other nativesfewas splitting posts about 30 yards away. Keore, the iather of the last witness and of the deceased, gave corroba-. rative evidence. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally killed by a falling branch of a tree causing a fracture of the skull."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 167, 18 July 1898, Page 2
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