NAPIER.
Monday. An inquest was held today on the body of Ernest August Weber, aged 17 years, son of Mr Charles Weber, Provincial Engineer, -who met his death under melancholy circumstances. The deceased was a cadet clerk on the railway. A gun, belonging to Mr Miller, the manager, was left loaded in tbe ticket office, and another cadet named Webber ,was,playing with the gun. The deceased was showing him how. to fire (neither knowing the gun was loaded), when the gun went off and shot Weber dead on the spot. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts, adding a rider regretting the culpable and prevalent practice of persons leaving loaded firearms in .places accessible to others. There is some talk of another candidate for the Napier district, that of Mr Joseph Rhodes, who is absent in England, but there is no address out.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2149, 23 November 1875, Page 2
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146NAPIER. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2149, 23 November 1875, Page 2
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