WAIROA NEWS.
(SPECIAL TO DAILY TELEGRAPH.)
[BY TELEGRAPH.]
At the inqueEt on the body of the late James Stark the evidence showed that he had been melancholy for some days owing to influenza, from which he suffered. He had breakfast as usual, and went out to have a shot at a target which was kept in a shed near the house. About two minutes afterwards a shot was heard. Deceased was found lying doubled over the rifle, the butt being against a sack of chaff and the muzzle at his head, which was terribly smashed. A verdict was returned that deceased died of a gunshot wound, but how inflicted there was no evidence to show.
Mrs Clunie's five-roomed house at Opoiti was burned down early on Sunday morning. All the contents were destroyed, the inmates only escaping with a few articles of clothing. There is an insurance in the Imperial of £150, but Mrs Clunie is a heavy loser.
All the competitors in the handicap events for to-morrow's sports have accepted, with the exception of Pilcher.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9951, 27 December 1900, Page 5
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