Correspondence
[We are not responsible for the opinions of our correspondents.] 1 THE LATE INQUEST AT AWAHUEI. TO THE EDITOB OF THE BTAK. Sir, — I should like to know by what coui'se of reasoning tiie jury arrived at their recent verdict, notwithstanding the evidence of the groom Kose that "he could not say the deceased was quite sober," and that of James Neary, who deposed " that the deceased when passing him was rolling on his saddle as if drunk?" What do they mean by the words " misfortune and accident, and not otherwise ?" It reminds me of a little boy who, when he broke the sugar basin, ran to his mother and Ba id — "Mamma, I didn't break the sugar basin !" Surely that impartial jury did not wish to shield any one that might have given the deceased the last fatal glasa? — I am, &c., Enqtjibeb* -
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 32, 25 August 1885, Page 2
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145Correspondence Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 32, 25 August 1885, Page 2
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