QUEEN'S REDOUBT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 321, 22 November 1864, Page 5

QUEEN'S REDOUBT.

[FKoM Ot'li OWN COKUJ SI'ONPKNT.] owiui/0. 17. 18(>L Thk 1)0(1 v of the unfortunate young man ( orpoml Ge r«io Kllis, Ist "Waikato Mil tia, and attached to the t J eparlnunt. w]io ami* drowned a? ilit' Wiitr. was disci vci'ed vi s!erday nt the Waikato lleas, ha\ing iloat-d a cli^t:.ii» of twenty ht mi)< ti. r J he body was vrn mmh disfigured, especially :»boi,! ill: lV:i'i:n s, which wen 1 Miite m.ilis*tii»*;Mis«lial*li*. and if wasnnW known t}>:tt it was the unfortunate man J v the clo:h. s In* bad on, and a so by the It tt* rs in M- } ( ekct. It ujpiars that the currents in the Waitato riwrare vcy lh kle. 'J lie t\w» men v.lio were drowned belonging io "Mr. l.oir.nx's party have i.ot \ct 1 ceo /< und, and )t was not e-\i ti t'd that, Coi poral iillis's bedy would h -ve ever bei n discovered. A vounic man of the -[Oth ivgim n!", servant to I ieut. i uiton, \ ) A.G-, 51.0., was diowncd at the l'lull' nndi r nearly similar eiri umMano s as Corporal 1 Hit?, but h\s houy lias never hem discover-d. Persons venuning in canoes t-h< i uld be extremely careful, especially if they do not propeilv in dersfand how to manage them. It is through their inability to do so thnt so many have been drowned. 'I lie inquest sits this day. Large quantities of mditarv r-to'rs are being sent np to where the pijneipal depot is to be. f l he last two field-guns have le-n taken to A uekland. In fact we are getting very thin in number: what. was onee General Cameron's headquarters baa dwindled into a small military outpost. Kovcmher IS. This evening the dull monotony of Camp life was relieved bv Professor Parker giving an entertainment in Ale Lean's old Canteen, which ivas very well put roui/.ed.