GRUESOME "FIND" ON THEBEACH.
v A LOST COFFIN 'SHIP' RECALLED. ' ..■:■:', (By Telegraph-Press 1 .Association.). '■ '„' ■"■ ■".' ■■. ,; - November 8. '.. ; bevcral ladies yesterday discovered a- coffin on, tbo beach, at :Mangonui : Bluff, it having v been, washed, np by tho son. Upon making c inrther investigation they found that vthe 3 coffin contained a skeleton. To-day tho tnatter Dargavillo polico and v ona ot the .constables is going out to-morrow a to-make further inquiries. . .. ■< ■ ■ It is.believed;.by some that tho'coffin is 1 ono of tho Chmeso lot that were lost'some d tune ago, while others think that the discovery, is; only,'somo: coffin' from, a Native I bunal-ground, a largo number, of Maoris, who t wer^ ; . killed m the war, being interred in v the.vicinity.'■.:■■;■■ ~'...;!-.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 659, 9 November 1909, Page 5
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119GRUESOME "FIND" ON THEBEACH. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 659, 9 November 1909, Page 5
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