DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1929, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

WOMAN FOUND SHOT,

TRAGEDY AT FEEL FOREST,

(By Telegraph—For jP ress Association.)

CHRiSTCIIURCU, June 2(>

On Monday afternoon, a shocking tragedy was diseolsed at Feel Forest, when PlunkcL Nurse Rogersun, while on her rounds, visited the home of Miami Mrs Fred. Stevenson to see the baby. Failing to make anyone hear, she entered the home, and found three children, one aged six, one aged three, and a baby that was being rocked by the eldest of the trio. Inquiring for their mother, she was told she was ill in her bedroom. The nurse found Mrs Stevenson lying on the floor with a gnu still in her grasp, and the front of her face blown away. Nurse Rogerson lost no time in telephoning for a doctor, and twenty minutes later Dr Made, of Geraldine, was in attendance. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon, before Mr C. R. Orr-Wnlkcr, S.M., Coroner, when evidence was given by the husband and mother of deceased, the nurse and Dr Made. Alter hearing the evidence, the Coroner returned a verdict that death was file result of a gunshot wound self-in-flicted while in a depressed state of mind.

The deceased, who was thirty-six years of age, leaves ,in addition to the husband, six little children. DEATH OF MAORI CHIEF. AUCKLAND, June 25. ’laingakawa Tameliana to Walmron, aged ninety-four, paramount chief of the Waikato Maoris, died at Auckland yesterday. He was Prime Minister, to Te Rata, the present Waikato kins and the two made a trip to England in 1914 to put forward alleged grievances of natives. The Great War broke out, and fhey returned to the Dominion. T.i ingakawa Tameliana paid a visit to England with R a tan a in 1925. A tnngi is being held at Mor-j-insville. FAILURE TO ACCOUNT. / AUCKLAND. .Tune 25. The dentist named Vincent Walker Mo;!.:-y. aged 39, wlm had pleaded guilty to failure to account to his employer. F. J. Raynor, for the sum of J? 248 received on his employer’s account, was sentenced in the Supreme Court to 12-months’ hard labour, and two years’ reformative detention, the sentence to be concurrent.