AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3167, 23 August 1881, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

August 23. Mr Stanaway has returned from the wreck of the Rona. He went south of the wreck, but found nothing. He then traversed from the wreck to the south head, about ten miles parallel to Shelly Beach. He found the body of a young man, about five feet nine inches, with a good set of teeth, light hair, but no /whiskers. All the flesh was off the body except the hands and feet, and was possibly washed off by the action of the tide. The body had on a pair of white drawers banging on one leg, and worsted socks with white tops, and half-soled elastic boots. It had no other clothing. He also found one of the ship's hatches lying twenty yards away higher up on the beach. Five miles further north he found one of the vessel's coir warps, and two miles north of that a keg of butter and a mug. There was no sign of a boat anywhere. It is evident that the vessel capeized at sea, and the man whose body bas been found tried to come ashore on the hatch, but was washed off in the surf, there being no other piece of wreckage within five miles of the body. Mr Stanaway dug a hole in the sand above high water, and buried the body i with the" booming of the surf for the burial service. He brought up portions of the band and forwarded it to Auckland for identification. From the description of the body found it is neither that of Captain Kenneth McKenzie or his mate Smith ; they were both men who stood about six feet high, and the former was dark-complexioned. The mail steamer has just arrived.

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