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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 325, 20 November 1865, Page 2

Captain Sleigh’s body Found.— The body of Captain Sleigh, who was drowned in this harbor on Friday week last while coming from the s.s. Phoebe in a waterman’s boat, was discovered yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock, on the beach, between Captain Kennedy’s house and the Swimming Baths. It appears that a carter named Harris noticed it in the water close to the shore, half floating and half laying on the bottom. He at once communicated the intelligence to the police, who procured a cart and proceeded to the place in question ; meantime Harris went ta Capt. Mclntyre and informed him also. That gentleman immediately went after the police, with the view of ascertaining whether he could identify the body. On reaching the beach the body was taken out of the water and placed in the cart. The dress was scarcely disarranged; the coat, rest, trouses, and boots, being in precisely the same condition as at the moment when the deceased met his unhappy death —even the gloves on his hands were tmtorn. But the head, face, and neck, presented a hideous spectacle, every shred of flesh having disappeared, and nothing but the skull, with its empty sockets, and bare bones, remained of the expressive face and handsome features, of one who but ten brief days ago was a stalwart man full of life and vigor, Mclntyre was able to identify the body as that of Captain Sleigh, solely from the description of the clothes given to him by Mrs Sleigh before she left for the South. The body was conveyed to the Police-station where it still lies. An inquest will be held on it to-day, at Barrett’s Hotel at eleven o’clock. We understand that Captain Mclntyre, whose kindly and generous interest in the ease is well-known, waited last night upon Go I. Eaultsin, the Defence Minister, to ascertain whether the Government would arrange to ha#e the funeral of the deceased conducted in a manner fitting to the rank which he held the Colony. As the result of this interview the funeral will take place this afternoon, and those who may wish to attend it can do so by joining the procession, which leaves the Resident Magistrate** Court at 4 o’clock. As the deceased Gapt. oieigh held « commission in the Waikato Militia, it would be a graceful and appropriate act for the Wellington Volunteers to lay him in the grave with military honors,—Wellington Independent, %Mh So yember.