INQUEST.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1908, 25 June 1889, Page 2

INQUEST.

An inquest was held at Wheelband's Rangitata Traffic Bridge Hotel on Saturday last, before J. Gr. Dennistoun, Esq., J.P., and a jury of six, touching the death of Charles Edward Lewis, the lad who died suddenly the previous day. The parents of the boy, who were first called, identified the body as that of their son, aged ten years and nine months. He had been ailing since I his birth, and they had not expected to be able to rear him. He had often had very severe attacks of illness. On the occasion of ths attack to which he succumbed it was not expected it would prove fatal. The father was away from home, and there was no one in the House that the mother could send for a doctor but a little boy some seven years of age, and the distance to tho nearest doctor was soma ten or twelve miles. Dr Fish, deposed to holding a post mortem examination of the body, and finding the liver very much diseased, sufficient to cause death. The lad had been ailing very much ever siace his birth. The cause of daath was disease of the liver and syncope. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony.