DRURY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 59, 21 January 1864, Page 4

DRURY.

Frnoji our mvs coniiEsroNni'XT.] •January ID. The Prury Coal Mini's, in :i few iliiys, wiil Jitrain be worked. ' The men are now being rug:ifjcl, and are s>ix'i>:ii">nj-!" In commence work. Tin.' first bullock tcjllll of household gOOlls belonging to 0110 of till! millers, li-ft Ihurv lor his old house in the settlement of Ramarama yesterday afternoon. This is the seeonil family that has returned to that settlement. As the convoy yesterday was proceeding to I'ukekohe, when "about a mile from that place, the corporal in charge of the drays went In-hind one of the horses to adjust some part of the harness, and the animal struck nut, striking the man over tile eye, low-aids the temple, felling him lo the ground. I[o remained insensible for sen minutes, the blood welling up fiom the wound. There being no doctor at thai post. l:c was taken l ack to Briny, and is now ill hospital. Two large boats li ft yesterday afternoon for the front, ha villi:* eleven horses !o each. The convoy upwards this morning consisted of I!!) carts. iKfiriST. —-All inquest' was held, to-day, before C. Mcllsop, l's„.. coroner, at the hospital ol the Commissariat Tiansport Camp. Brnry. 011 the body of Thomas Kennedy, aped The first witness. Charles dt posed : 1 am actim.'lance-corporal of the Ist Waikato "Reginiciil. 1 know the deeoa.-ed. On Sunday afternoon last, about -I o'clock. 1 was corporal of the guard at Williamson's charing : Lieut. Wallace called for a Ide of the guard to confine private Kennedy. 1 ordi red out a'(do of the puard. and went to secure the prisoner, who was down at the canteen; he was drunk. Vimling two men were not suttieient, and as the prisoner fought his way back into the canteen. 1 ran over for two more of the guard. and then with diflieidty we pot I'.im into the guard-tent, about a hundred yards from tin- canteen. 1 had him tied down across the U gs. Lieut. \A allaee saw us earryinu hun irto the guard tent, lit about « quarter'of an hour he l omited the contents of his stomach, \\ hich appeared to he beer. He then appeared yen wiali. so 1 ordered his legs to lie untied, and made him comfortable with sacks and greatcoat, the latter under bis bead: be went to sleep. >io violence more than necessary was used to eonvey liini from the canteen to the puavd tent. I watched him every half-hour till !) o'clock. T was engaged on military'duty from I) till 11 o'clock. I saw liiin auain. and found him dead : he had moved his head only, and that but slightly. He was addicted to drink. There is a travelling tunteen: it comes to Williamson's clearing ■ >euorally about pay day. and stavs about a fortnight. r l he olliccrs allow it. 'Jhc LTuard lent that day was so wet it was not fit for pies to be in. It is the quarteimastor's duty to see to the tents by eleven o'clock at nip lit. That nip-lit' there wore about M prisoners in the guard tent. The puard tin mselvcs bail to stay outside the tent for '21 hours, tin- inside beinp' a pool of water. —"William .Win d Smith: ! am adjutant of the Ist Waikato n pt. 1 have seen the body. The d< ceased's name is Thomas Kennedy; hi- is 2!) years of ago. 1 produce the nominal roli of the mm stationed at Razor-back. 'J'he deei ased was station! d there, anil lie went to Williamson's clearing on leave. He had formerlv been a soh'itr in India.—Tom Tilth ton : I

;uii ;i private in No. ;> t.( of the \t-t Waikato rcirt. I was one of the guaid en Sunday l:i>i. about four o'clock, at "WilliamsnV ('baling*. I saw the d» i eased on the yiound: 1 was called to assist in taking him. lie was sitting cown on >on:e straw, with his 1 r;.il a li11i«* ha< k„ apuini-t the canteen. I j.K:c«. < i:«d w;J} i »tiuis t«» nn.eve ),im to the guard tent. We L:«'t him to th.e guard tent, and tied him d<-wn with a hi! of rope. J .-aw bin: alive at eight o'clock for the time. —Joseph Uiles: I um snip on (>T f)e ]>1 Y.'aikato n-gt. I have made a ,rorf<iii examination of the deceased, which was in t<> enable m«' to to arrive at the cause of death. 1 tound the whole <>{' Hie internal organs of tlie bead and eh»>t greatly congested. 1 also found f:11i-1 in the stoinaeh Mh.ich appeared to lc beer. The a] p-aiam e-; ] have described are the 'i-r.al apnoranees of a>physcia. er of coma of tin? brain. IVath might have been from either. Death might have vouited fr<<va apoplexy or drink. If there had 1 i en no external < ;iuse of sutVocation, my opinion is that death finvc horn eoma, which might liave been produced by drink. —The jury relumed a verdict ef "dtath from eX( • ssive drink." Several of Ihe witness and jurymen were non-eom-missioned oncers. and a vast deal of useful infornmlion was elicited relative to ranteens for the supply of drink, and also of the best way of paying men as related to the army. Those non-commissioned otlieers -who were stationed at posts where there was nut a canteen said their men were quiet, well be* haved men. attentive to their duties, giving little or no trouble. Those attached to stations like AVilliamson's Clearing said their men were quiet and well behaved oxtqii during the time the canteen wus nt t!ie station. January 20. ]?oi'.m:itv. —Last night, January l'Jth. some one with it knife oy other instrument, cut out a portion ot' one of the sheets of }]l;ito-<_il:iss in the window of .Mrs. MicKlletnns's store, unci by jmtfing in the arm emptied the window of nil they could reach. It consisted of six dozen handkerchiefs and some belts. Fortunately no more was available. The convoy to the front this morning consisted of t'2 cans. 'Die ' Progress.' ' Favorite,' and 1 Kate,' left Drury yesterday, and the 'Lizzie,' 'Mary Ann,' ' "Wairoa,' and ' Sea Shell,' arrived last night. They discharged their cargoes and left for Onehunga by this midday's tide.