CORONER'S INQUEST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3619, 20 September 1890, Page 2

CORONER'S INQUEST.

An inquest on the; remains 4 of th( late Hoana, laraitiana, who wai .burntin-a; whare at-Akura ; yesterdaj morning, wasi' held;' before Coronei Roberts this A jury of pix, qf-^hom-Mr.? Hyde was ohoseii'foreman, was sworn in; and after the usual oMrge, proceeded to Akura to view "the remains, '.

Apata Kar'aitiana sworn, deposed that he knew' de'jea'sed.wko was his grandmother. Ho was first awakened by Ehody Thompson about daybreak At tha| ifme-'tHo'Ware was consum'ed..,'He was .told thatLis grandmother had been burnt. , .Went back to bed and .was 1 awakened-by Dick Karaitiana and his motbev.afaout six p'clocli, IJb thro went to' the pre,, got the remains and put them in a box. Beoognised the remains as those of his' grandmother, who; he believed, was about 80' years of ago;, Mated Karaitiana deposed that she knew the deceased, who was her mother, in law. Saw. 'her alive .'the day. before she v/ai burnt, about five o'cldojtirt the evening.''' llie deceased was tlen in-her whare sitting by the Side of her ire.' ; The lower", portion of the chimney wasma|e of 10s and tlje remainder-' of 'wood, The whare'"wasmade of weatherboards, with shingle roof,; Did; riolj hear anything in • the' night, \ but' was called by someone, who told her and everybody else there that the liouses'/htid booij humtiviSho went to tho scene of tho firo with, her son'. ' Thought -her ; mother-in-law had.made.lier escape, as her dog; was out; pidnqt,khbw' : what.time:this was, ' Weh'l again with Apata aboiu

daylight, when she sawiheremain, of deceased on the fire and recognised them. Assisted the last witneasit-tp | pat the remains in aim. DioVnpt know the age of deceased, whojuw by heiself. There.'were *WO Europeans, living in the adjoining buildings."... ,•.-,■ James Dalziel and, George Wilson who lived next dooi' -deposed to being, aroused about twelve b'.olock by. the crackling •'/' noise and finding the fire. They did'.not know dVc'oased,'hul"found'''the-re-mains ate the building had been bur.4t%wiv ' ;i^O f v '?.' ;-The'jury,?X' er a short'deliberatio'n, that deceased >met jiW'deithvDy'heing burnt at'Ak'iria/ Pah'toSeptember 10th,; no beingiorthcoming to show how'the fire originated. • ••.