DEATH BY DROWNING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7976, 13 November 1905, Page 2

DEATH BY DROWNING.

(Per Press Association.! (lISBOHNK, Nov. 11

A vctdiet o[ accidental drowning was returned at tlie inquest rcnardinj; tlie death of Frank Mason, a

nmldie-ased single man, wlio was found on tlie beach at Waipiro. Tlis evidence .showed lie was s;-cn two In.-ins previously, apparently in j;oo:l health. When found he had lvis head almost buried in the sand on the .sea shore, and ii was probable his death had been accelerated liv suffocation. His clothes were tilled Willi, sand. Deceased had been in that district for about a month, and was formerly cook at the Maraetalia station.

A SHOCKING CASE OF DEPRAVITY (Per Press Association.) TIMAKU, Nov. 11. A pitiful domestic tragedy was the siilijict oi an iiAiitcsl al (iei'aldinc today. A girl between 15 ami di ve.us ytars-of aR-e,.named Tiuev, the (laughter of a carter al Mount Peel v,— teiilay gave I.illli 1,, aeh Id ,ji 'an outhouse. She buried it and Mien mill.nl two cows before g„j„g- j,,. doors, when she became ill. She lo'd the constable lh.il she Umuglit Hi., child was bor„ dead, but, the' do-tor will say it bnalhul, iU; ,| t| ull ,|,„ skull was smaslk',l with a spade or otlleiwise. The fatlu-r of |j„. child is a you 11, of seventeen