SUICIDE AT DRURY. [BY TELEGRAPH.] Auckland, Last Night.
Superintendent Thomson, has received a telegram irom Drury informing him of the suicide of a settler named George Cook, between 50 and 60 years old. Cook shot himself through the head, and death, it is believed, must have been instantaneous. He was in receipt of Government rations, and had been desponding for some weeks.
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Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1484, 7 January 1882, Page 2
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62SUICIDE AT DRURY. [BY TELEGRAPH.] Auckland, Last Night. Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1484, 7 January 1882, Page 2
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