SUICIDE OF A QUEENSLAND LEGISLATOR.
(united press association.) Auckland, December 29. Further particulars are to hand of the suicide of the Hon. H. R. Boer, said to be a member of the Queensland Parliament. It is stated that he booked at Sydney, and it is believed that he intended to make the tour of New Zealand. After leaving port, the weather was rough, and deceased was observed to be sea sick. On Christmas night he went below, and bad been there only a short time when the report of a gun was heard, and some Dassengers found him lying with his face bleeding. Examination showed that he had shot himself in the neck, and that the windpipe was torn by the shot ; death must have been instantaneous. The gun was double barrelled, and loaded with heavy slugs. As the weather was hot, it was deemed advisable to inter the body, and it was consigned to the deep. The burial service was read by the Revs. Burrows and Ross. [The deceased was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, for the district of Bowen.—Ed. N.Z. Times.]
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 464, 1 January 1881, Page 13
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