TRAGEDY OF REAL LIFE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 145, 28 September 1910, Page 5

TRAGEDY OF REAL LIFE

i* £<s} A PATHETIC STORt. " J By Telegraph.—Press Association. $ Auckland, Last Nigtifci A pathetic srfcory of one of the saddeqfl tragedies of real life was brought Auckland this afternoon by the G®ven|» ment steamer Hiroemoa, which arrive# from the Little Barrier Island. The lit" tie Barrier is one of the Government? sanctuaries for native birds, „ and i* jguarded from ravages of poaoheTß by a caretaker appointed by the Tourist Department. There are no other inhabit tants of the island, which has no com* munic&tkm with the mainland.' Mr jinn* ter Blair was the caretaker, and wita hid wife has lived on the island for jiome months. Mr. Blair, who bad beds 'is delicate health, died last Weda(pay., night. His wife watched the bodM lot two days, in the hope that somwody. Would call at the island, of which shawafl now the sole resident. TfiursdajjJarkl Fridlay passed without any callers, and on Saturday morSSgjwlifc Blair made the necessary preparation*, for the performance of the layt sad oU flees of the dead. She collected some planks and boards, and made a tude oof* fin. She then dug a grave near BiS'ftiiH the work being completed on Saturday On Sunday last she reverently committe the remains to their lest restiMwta« the burial service being read M jmsqM tary mourner at the Blaif-, who was naturally mum anwte !by the severe trial to which she-WM stfl jected, remained at the lonely, fcabfyatio with no company save the birds till >Moi day evening, when the arrival of tl Hinemoa brought (her such solace M tM man sympathy and assistance can affon She came on to Auckland to-day, and i a few days will leave to join friends i Wellington.