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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 1288, 5 December 1857, Page 3

Inquest.—An inquest was held on Wednesday last, at the South Sea Hotel, Lambton Quay, before G. D. Monteith, Esq., Coroner, upon the body of 11 woman named Honoria Hogan, who had been found lying dead, on

the Clay Hill leading from Boulcott street to Wellington Terrace. Several witnesses were examined, including Sergeant-Major Styles, and from the evidence adduced, there can be little doubt but that the deceased, in returning home on the previous evening, had missed her fooling and was unable to extricate herself from the clay which in consequence of the late heavy rains was nearly knee-deep. From the position in which the body was found the next morning, there is every reason to believe that the immediate cause of death was suffocation. The Jury returned a verdict of “ Found Dead.”