INQUEST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6344, 25 November 1898, Page 3

INQUEST.

s An inquest was licld at tlie , Llarenclon Hotel this: morning, on the body of the male infant chNld which Avas? "found ■ at . the sandbills' amongst a load of nightscil on Nov. Mr R. Beetham, district coroner, presided, and Air M'Cutcheon was chosen foreman of ' the jury. ' Willijim Henry Symes, a duly qualified 1 medical practitioner, said he had mads an ex- ' agination of the body, which was that of a it ill-born male child, which child had never breathed. The child had been born within > the last twenty-four hours, he should judge. Robert Jor.es said he covered up the nightsoil at tha sandhills. He was at work there at six o'clock yesterday morning, and discovtred the body of a newly -born male child. It was in tha second load which had been brought that night, and had been collected by Halligan and Yogel. The child was brought to the depot by a man named Robinson. Witness handed the body to Constables Cassttlls and Flewellyn. Samuel Yogel said that on the night of Nov. 23 he, in company with Halligan, was collecting nightsoil from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. They collected three loads that night. For the second lead they commenced at the corner of Salisbury and Durham Streets, and wenfc round the block by way of Montreal Street, Conference Street, and back to where they started along Durham Street, and then along Salisbury Street to Colombo Street. Samuel Halligan gave corroborative evidence, as also' did William Robinson, the driver of the night-cart, and Constable Cassells. . , Mr Beetham said that, in view of the fact that the child had never, breathed, it was not much use going on further, - A verdict w« returned that the child was btill-bora, and .there was nrv evidence to show hew it "came into the night-cart. '

.•- A -lad named : William Manhire l eighteen : years of age, in the employ of Wakely and Allpress. flax-millers, at Studholme Junction, was drowned, while bathing, with others, in the Waihao River at 6 p.m. yesterday. The body was recovered and removed to the Studholme Junction Hotel, where an inquest will be held. The deceased, who could not swim, got into about twelve feet of water, in which a quantity of debris from flax-mills is usually thrown. His parents reside at Rangiora. The nine-months-old son of Mr George Winter, a. farmer residing at West Oxford, uieu in a convulsive fit on Wednesday afternoon". -, •