INQUEST AT KAIAPOI.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7527, 17 April 1890, Page 6

INQUEST AT KAIAPOI.

„-STeeterday morning an Inquest was held j»tlie Courthouse, Kalapoi, before C. c Wutefoord, Esq., Coroner, and a jury, of i*»Jeh Ute J. C. Burberry was Foreman, . "OocMagt the finding of certain human reMains on Mr F. Kelly's farm at Swanna,ao& on March Ist. James King, plough'Tα * £^ Te evidence that whilst he was » ' Si^fr I, * °ie Implement turned up the H of a human body which were in W g* *?* in a depression on Mr Kelly's I |J? s£alL Mr F. Kelly and f fim*?* ** his son, gave evidence of r Sf s v ? P c ««»« portions of the reig*?* and handing them to Constable SSK, The land was being cross Bt* at a greater depth than the wl£ * estivation where the bones SttEf Dr - H. Compton Parwhich examined the remains, abanf *?2? 136 of a maaa apparently ye* lß of age, probably, from r^J^* 6 or character of the skull, an The bones were old. There ' iSJir 018 &t the base of the skull which Sr^ 7 tafee for a ballet hole, but ' Sr^t , ** 8 clearly caused after death and fr*j»*y. The head was rather large in '.gvporUcn to the body, and deceased had * - SS?i* lM * t b* atatuKe, but well deyeloped. xoejory returned a verdict that the reg«ae were those of a Native man, but |£*c ma no evidence to account for his