SUICIDE IN FIJI.
POLICE INSPECTOR'S SAD ACT. .{By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) ' Auckland, August 22. The Suva correspondent of the "Herald" says that another suicide—and the fourth hero within a few weeks—has to - be chronicled. The deceased was Inspector Gosstray, in charge of the police at Navua. .He was /only 48 years of age, and was transferred irom thf Melbourne police to Fiji in 1887. His ability : won. ' for him rapid promotion and he was looked upon as one of tho best officers in the force. Ho had been somewhat depressed of • late, and was found at his table on the mrrning of August 25' dead with a revolver bullet wound in his head. In handling. Fijians and Indians Gosstray had no equal arid his plac« will be a hard one to fill. He left thrco letters—one to the Inspector-General, ono to his wife, and another to his daughter.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 902, 23 August 1910, Page 4
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147SUICIDE IN FIJI. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 902, 23 August 1910, Page 4
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