The Tuapeka Press gives tliefollowing .;: - account of. the inquest held at Tapanui,- On the 10th August, on the body . Horace George Michael, son of Sir John'Miohael, late Commander-in-Ghief of theForoesin Canada. Mr Michael was out-shooting in Tapanui 1 tush wi< h a friend,; a Mr G. Rawlins, and it is.supposed that; while drawing , his gun after himupa tree-,thetriggeroahgbfe a knot in -tlie trunk,' and thus’ dischatgpd the gun. - ' The shot entered his . head, hinder the right ear, and passed ‘ out-through , the top of the skull. - Deceased was; only - t wenty-two -years l of age; and; hia father “ had recently bought a Btation at Na'V pier in the Nbnhrlslatidi-f’HtA. Stratford‘S - Esq., held - the a verdiot accidental deatK^was-Jwturhed.?-iAfythe.-" r. > condlusiba x placed in : a Spring hjp \6oai«y ed; i: - < wai^B-takenApsDuhedm;'|^^teWfr^U*i!;i:':;--the cemetery there. - * c 1 .
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 91, 28 September 1868, Page 235
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