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Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13020, 8 February 1911, Page 6 (Supplement)

A gentleman, who lias been prominently ronncctrvi with Xew Brighton for very many years, in chatting to a. representative of "The Press" the other day, recounted the story of a very gruesome find ha made in the early days of the watering place. Some thirty years ago, he remarked, ho Mas walking along the beach with his wife, when they came* upon the framework of a coffin containing human remains, the covering of sand having been washed away by wind and ■ tide. Tho remains were afterwards' decently buriud, and it subsequently ' transpired that many years before the same coffin had been discovered by a Christchureh resident, who had left | it with the intention of returning to it, but had afterwards been unable to find it. The opinion was expressed at the time, said the informant, that the remains were those of the doctor who accompanied Captain Cook, as "the famous navigator mentions in tho account of his voyages that whan his doctor died off the New Zealand coast be was buried on a "low sandy beach."