George William Peake, sworn, said : I am surgeon of the 2nd. battalion of the 18th regiment. Yesterday about 12 o'clock I saw the body of Mrs. Fabey when •he was brought on the ambulance cart. Sho was then dead. I examined the body, and found a gunshot

wound through the' of the back close to the spine. by hemorrhage and would have been neous. She appeared to have beeu in good Verdiot—That deceased came to her death by a gun shot wound from a ponon or persons unknown, but •upposed to bo of tho Maori race. Al*o that great praise is duo to FitzgeiaUl for his manly conduct in going over to Fahey's on the occasion.—" Daily Southern Cross," October 19.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—SUICIDE.
