A TRAGEDY OF THE BUSH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 249, 17 October 1908, Page 4

A TRAGEDY OF THE BUSH.

Inspector Cullen has received an inter, eating report from Constable Matthew; of Te Kuiti, who states that on Tuesday last he received information that a skeie. ton had been found on Sander's section st Aria. He immediately went out to investigate, and found two shoulder - bones, the upper and lower jaw." ton'of the skull and several small bones white on the top of the ridge a sixrchambered V volver wae found with four chambers leaded. The revolver had evidently been exposed for a number of years, as the handle was rotten and the trigger guard S?»d barrel were eaten away. A rusty bunch of keys and a pair of hushmen'a boots were also found alongside. «£ consider the skeleton is that of a European," Constable Matthew adds, "and that the man has been dead about tee /ears or more. The Maoris say that none of their trjbe have been missjjia and the oldest European can give mc no information. It will, I think, ever re? main a mystery as to hoy tliis man came by his death, —whether it -was due to suicide, accident or starvation. The bones were found by a man named Hearn, and the spot was last year' covered by fern and scrub, which has since been burnt ' the remains being thus exposed." Constable Matthew collected the bone* together and buried them.