feeofcte and the editor of the Otago Diily lt;Tiwiea.o -** .....James HalliKTt, one of Hawke’* Bay'soldest settlers, aged eighty, was (founddead with a gun by his eide near an oat-house on his farm. At the inquest averdict wae returned that he died from a guoshot wound, aelf-inflicted, but there was no evidence to show .whether intentional or dot. l \ -tr ft I