TRAGIC OCCURRENCES. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2076, 27 October 1885, Page 2

TRAGIC OCCURRENCES. [BY TELEGRAPH .— PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Dinfihn, iSunday. Avothtu mysterious and violent death has occurred at South Duncdri. On S iturday evening the body of a lad named Adam*, about ten yem*> of age, vas di^oveied lying in a vacant piece of ground a few yards from the main road, with i bullet hole in his head, and quite dead. Seal oh was made for hit* aim-, but none wete discovered. The p uenl-. of thr b"y aie quite unable to account for tne death of turn m)h, and the police *.o far li.i\e obtained no clue. The affau is supposed to have been an accident.

Monday. At the inquest on the boy Adam I', a verdict of accidental death was leturned. The evidence hhowed that the wound which caused death w.n made by an iron -ptke attached to a pop tethering a curt. A boy niimod Waban admitted that the peg struck the deceased while he was swinging it round his head, the deceased having conic up behind. The evidence showed that the blow must have been \ory severe, as it had penetrated ovei 4 niche-.

Blkvutim, Satuiday. A shocking thooting atfan took place tins morning. A hd of fourteen, son of a niei eh.int's clerk named Wniit.vnley, was handling ,i loaded caibme when it accidentally went off, killing instantaneously hib yiMHiger brother, Oswald. The boys were both cadets, and had been at sknmishiug drill on the previous d.iy, and the eldei had inseited a piece of lead in his caibine for practising shooting at a mark. He was handling the caibine in the bediooin this morning, showing his biother how to drop on one knee to resist ca\ \lry, with the weapon resting on the floor at lnlf cock, when it accidentally went off. with the fatal result already dcicubed. At the inquest a verdict of " Accideut.il death " was returned.