NELSON, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1703, 5 June 1883, Page 2

NELSON, Last Night.

( A woman who is not yet fully identified, wa& foundjdead on the boulder bank ncai" Wak.ipnaka Bluff on Saturday aftei- % noon. The woman in question had beep 'atiying'afc' the Subnrban North Hotel for tea days, and on Filday she went for a walk. The following morning she was found below high water maik, with a bi vise on the baelcof her head.aud her iace 'much bruised, there being blood on the boulder beneath her face. Her jacket and hat* were found beneath a tree 100 yards distant, and the pocket of her drefes was inside out. Her purse, however, was found at the , hotel. It is thought to be a case of suicide. A small' tenement on the hill-side of the port was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. It was insured in the Norwich Union with contents for £130. An explosion of gas took place at halfpa.st (i o'clock this morning at the ie&idence of Mr G-, Martin Lightband. The servant had entered the room by the French windows leading to the verandah, and observing a smell of gas opened the windows. She then went to another part of the house, and afterwards re-en-toied the room where she smelt the gas. Bearing a lighted candle she placed it on a table, and took some mats on to the verandah, and while engaged beating these an explosion took place. The French windows were torn off their hinges and thrown on to the verandah, and all the gh.ss in the room, including I that in the picture fumes, was smashed. The fliimt's stuick the seiwmt, and her face, hands .md aims aie badly burnt | Her &ci cams and the noise ot the explosion, cmscd gi en t commotion in the neighbouihood, and some little distance away tho evplosion was felt, and attubuted to an earthquake.