TRAGEDY AT WAIOWAKA

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10060, 30 January 1909, Page 2

TRAGEDY AT WAIOWAKA

(Pkb Phess Association i Wellington. Hie |Kiliee niitliorilics information of a dislrcMsiiii; 11 oci ni l I'll :i|. W'aioualia Vi-; li-i, v • *1 llcr named llcniv Tlwniaj,, dead his tsim, Williiiin .lolin 'ri„,, i of 19. and, after at Icm pt ini; |„ j"'* wife and daughter, c, m iic,| \""l blowing 1 invii.v his fare with h | |u , ''" h reason is assigned for the ile ( .,|. J '" l, I'a hiat na. .lain,. Il.iny Thomas, a well I,noun h J.* \\ a lowaka, .•!«<•<l 57, hliot |ii r , N „ '*>, , ' KS| "i.u'lit. and i 11.',, ~ "'.t suicide. The lioy was in the ;,,- t '"I in;; the lire wlu n his I'al lier , j't muzzle of the gun behind hi,., killed liiin inslanfiinenuslv. 11,, 1 wards placed Ihe niuz/.li' in '' and Mew his own brains nut. was in I'ahialua yesterday ininiiji, appeared in his usual eo'ndilii,,, f' is slated thai, lie snllcreil fn.iii ■"'! received to his head sexeral win,/' and at tiines became inictiui lollal,] * is surmised thai lie was in 0n,.',,7.. ■it the time of the tragedv.