Correspondence.
A QUEEY. TO THE EDITOE.
S IK,— Would you kindly inform me, through your Correspondents' Column, whether it is customary to hold inquests on human remains that may be discovered. My reason for asking is this :— Last Sunday afternoon, the body of a man was found in the bush, halfway between the Blueslrin and Kilmog Hotels. The body which was in a rather advanced state of decomposition, was conveyed to the Bluesldn Hotel, where it lay until Wednesday, when it was interred in the Bmeskin Cemetery. Now, I see by a late issue of the Otago Daily Times that an inquest is to be held on some bones found in the Port Chalmers Bush, which must have lain for years; and it seems strange that no inquest should be held on the body of a man that had not lain over a few weeks, lam, &c, A Subsckibee.
Blueskin, Sep. 11, 1875.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1242, 18 September 1875, Page 4
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