LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 179, 17 June 1864, Page 2

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Neither the steamer from the North, due on Wednesday, nor the one from the South, due yesterday, had arrived ujijto the hour of our going to press. No doubt the severe gale which raged yesterday was the cause of their non-appearance, but we trust they will turn up all right on its subsidence. Whatever news they bring will be given in our supplement. Death by Drowning. —An Jnquest was held on the banks of the" Mangaone river, on Tuesday last, the 14th inst., on the body of John Wilson, who was found drowned on the previous day ; before Thomas Ditchings, coroner, and the following jury—Edmund Tuke (foreman), Owen O’Bri-

en, Alfred Tibbals, Charles Medex, Henry Alley, Thomas Smith, Frederick James Sutherland, Alexander Uloth, Theodore Mowbray, Thomas Cook, and Howard Strong. It appeared from the evidence of Samuel D octor, who was last in company with deceased, that on Sunday last they parted at Munro’s wool-shed, deceased, who was drunk at the time, taking with him a bottle of whisky and a quantity of flour When the body was found witness found the flour on the river bank, and also the whiskybottle, from which about two glasses had been taken out. Barney, a half-caste lad, deposed that on Monday he found the body of deceased in a deep hole in the Mangaone, at a place where the bank was very steep and precipitous.—The jury returned a verdict of “ Found Drowned.”