TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1753, 13 October 1887, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PEESS ASSOCIATION..)

:«■••;' GARTERTON, October 13; fiArthor Moore, a pupil teacher at Carterton;school, was found shot dead in the f , school ;this morning. He went to the ' headmaster for the key to open the school and riDg the bell. Betbune, assistant master, not hearing him ring, went for the key, but ascertained that Moore had >) obtained it. Bethnne forced the school a .door open, bat found tbe insida door .looked, and the key id side. Getting ',t., t . through a window, he smelt powder, and, looking round, saw Moore lying dead, his head terribly shattered, one of the school n carbines .lying alongside him. Moore was • .studying with Betbune till nine last Bight.. -.No is assigned for tbe fearful act. , 1 '^oeb'synipafihy is expressed for his family . wHo have resided here since the formation of the settlement. \ Auckland, October, 13. "■■' John J. Elsall, between 60 and 70 years 'Ofvsge, committed suicide at Onehunga this ELorning, severing bis gullet and an artery on the left arm with apclasp knife.' Tbe deceased was a prosperous: tradesman, bflt bad been drinking since tbe election. He went into . a 'stable i loft' early this morning, and com- , mitted the act, and was not discovered for nearly two hours when~pii£tbe point of death. ; "-"3o**^ Tbe nflttl-sjeiineir Alamexla is signalled.