SKELETON IN THE BUSH.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 955, 24 October 1910, Page 6

SKELETON IN THE BUSH.

■:;■:'. -v ■. wa& it; pahaka 'IHAEA ?;.';' :; V : Aboutnoon: on; Friday Satterley, .of-lOtaki, jreoeiTed. from,; Mr.vJ;. oi', Mahakau,; to'-p; the eifect,vthat; he ; ih?,:.; skeleton, of a .man, ;ito;!;the; bush.V TJuf;;'. constable proceeded on, Mrs/; ■;• Shaw's.' house,- about four-' miles up ■ the' '■ ■-.; Manakau Elver,- and from there, in .'com- .'-,'' p'any'with Mr .\Wiliiams," pushed' his way. ; '. four . miles ..• further up;';the ; 'bed-, of ..the - , river to a" scrubroutte'rsV-campi;having.. very wild. On ■'■. arrival' at.the. camp .the. ■■;., two struck., inland :fofc. : .a i short ■ distance,;' ' through'.-the bush, ■.where-.they. came -;upon:-' i the disintegrated 'remains -•'; of >; a V.;inaii.V : .:.; ThereV'was : no..trac'k'of:ahy description:; in .;; the the ' skeleton :;being .discover- ',■,": ed: during' scrub-cutting-'operations.'the.,'..':■ previous . day'.;'; The' ".constable, collected;;;.■: most" of the 'bones; and; the' eknll^vto-; y gether : pair;bf.;p6inted ; toedi'b"n,t- : ''- ton-up -boots, i the uppers' of' which w.ere;; .in'-.-a, : remarkably: : good;- state' of :preserva-;. ■■". tibn, i'despite-'the: iact;.that 'theicondifio^i.'">-.:,■;■' pointed, :to. a; : tiagedy.jpfiover; three,iyeafa.:«'; ago, .'There'-.was..falsa.-.a (leather, purse,;'or,: wallet, and- part: of a.. of. :troisera;- :':' of - r .blue:viciina'' cloth'.j; : -; .- ;■;' :;'V; v ;■■; ;.£;;J -" ; Constable'■'Satterl'e'y-;"'.>m-. : his t jtepbrt;'to;}; .headquarters,' ';■■ that'- the"-;sMl : •■'ag-p V-' peared to be that of a-Maori, and frpm- -v, the -fact'- th'at.v;aoontv'four\'or--five -years',:;.'. iago a 'Native. named Jhaka- hanged., him-';;;'; self-:at-Manak'au'i:and''hisfßrQther,';Pauaka.': 1; Ihaka,; disappeared:; ;.soon.'. after, ithp'cir-.; 1 '.;: bumstahces pointed to 'the suggestion that-.;';, 'the remains ."were ..those, of:,,the'missing':;,-' man.- ,'About-eight days before, his;disi'.:; 4 appearance, he vpurohaseda'.pair'vof'boots-: ; 7' corresponding.in. style; to those : discovered ■■-;■: near. the remains,' from.'Charles', Lihdsajr,-; : -■ who knewPauaka.-Ihaka personally. ..Fur-;/' ther.'inquiries;aTe being'mate. jV;-':>.;