ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF THE BODY OF WILLIAM RENNIE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3970, 13 May 1870, Page 3

ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF THE BODY OF WILLIAM RENNIE.

Our. readers will remember that on Monday moxning last we reported the death by drowning of a yoving man, named William Hennie, in the employ of Captain Clayton, in Hobson's Bay. Search was made by the water police for the body, without success, and further seaicliwas suspended until after the lapse of the usual time at the end of which drowned bodies float. However, yesterday afternoon, a young half-caste girl, named Susan Henry, informed Constable A. Clarke, who was on duty in Queen-street, that a body had been found in Orakei Bay, by herself and another Maori woman, that morning, about nine o'clock. Her account was, that she and her companion had been on the beach gathering pipis, when their attention was attracted to a bulky thing, like a log, lying some distance from them wuhin the tide-flow. On closer inspection, they found it to be the body of a drowned man. The head was bare, and the feet were without shoes, but otherwise the body was clothed. The half-caste proposed to her companion to carry the body beyond the flow of the tide, which the old Avoman declined to do, and thus the body was left where it was, and the young girl came into town and informed, Constable Clarke, as above stated. He at once took the girl to the office of the Commissioner of Police, who despatched the v, ater j>olice with detective Temahan to bring in the body, the girl going with them in the boat as guide. On arriving at the spot indicated, about four o'clock, the tide was well in, and the body could not be found, although the police searched and dragged for it until about seven o'clock. The boat then left, after making an agreement with the Maori woman to secure the body should she find it when the tide went out. The water police will again resume the search to-day ; and, should they succeed in recovering the body, will bring it to the dead-house, in Official Bay.