POCAHONTAS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 4 June 1923, Page 8

POCAHONTAS.

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ARE GRAVES REALLY OPENED?

BT cable-pbesr assn.-copyrxght (-Received s p.m., J une 2.) T . London, June 1: Intel est is maintained in the search tor the remains of Pocahontas. It transpires that the bones in the Gravesend Churchyard were disin terred 50 years ago when the present chuieh was erected on the ruins of a Gothic Church. The bones were thrown aside under the impression that they were those of animals. Village children sold many to rag and bone merchant, in exchange for balloons and paper windmills. When it was discovered that they were the bones of human beings there was a great hue and ory. All recovered were hastily reburied in the churchyard. Mr Pycraft, of the British Museum, declared that Lord Curzon’s suggestion that the searchers were disturbing graves was utterly silly. “It ls absurd to imagine that a search of this description would be carried out to the extent of disinterring coffins. Skulls and bones examined already had been uncovered for years. We are replacing them more decently than they were before.” —A. and N.Z. Cable.