SHOT SELF'AND CHILD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 254, 20 July 1908, Page 8

SHOT SELF'AND CHILD.

::| ; ! A COUNTRY TRAGEDY. ~ (si' TELEGRAPH— FEESS ASSOCIATION.) • ' ' . • ■ Auckland,'; Jul y; 18. In connection witlj the tragedy, at -Maunga■tautare',: ten /miles 'beyond" Kihikihi—where Frank ;Maso'n,..of Mason Bros., runholders, shot himself and -his infant son—Constable' Lander went to Maungatautere ■ immediately on. receipt the news, - and- returned .late last' evening; • .On. entering' Mason's house he saw a little baby _ boy, an onljj child, aged ten months, who lav in the centre 1 of the floor with his head shattered ■by a gunshot wound, while ■the,father's.body'lay' beside the 'door' with a bullet wound'just below tho left'ear.,' . ; Mason had been in New Zealand about three .years.. His .wife was in tho houso whon the shooting took place. Mason is reported to h'ave been troubled with business worries.'

j, : FREEHOLD 'BUSINESS SITES: SALE to-day; . An auction sale of special interest to tho ; mercantile community and other investor® is ! that which will take place to-day at the rEx- ' chango Land Mart of Messrs. T. Kennedy Macdonald, Limited,' at. 2.30 o'clock. On behalf of tho Wellington and Manaivatu Railway Company, Limited, that firm will offer twenty freehold :business building sections situate, on i'i'horndon Quay, having frontagos ranging from 133 ft. by varying depths 'up to 117ft'. The sale (has attracted a good deal of-attention, and it lis anticipated will result in' keen competition 'taking placo for the sites, which are practically (the only building sites now available for warechouse or factory purposes in this part of the iOity,-which has, during the'past few years, de-veloped-into a business, centre.. The "terms of jfalo as detailed are liberal, Plans can be Obstained -on .the auctinnmift, 1 ' •' ; ■ ' "■ ' "