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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 999, 22 April 1871, Page 2

The English Mail via Suez may be expected to reach Napier about Monday next.

The late Fire.—An inquest *vas held this morning at Mr Fletcher's Hotel, Carlyle street, touching tbe late Jire in Goldsmith road. From the re port, which appears in another column, it will be seen that the jury found that the fire originated from sparks out of the chimney of the dwelling-house adjacent. The Late Capt. St. George.—We learn that the mortal remains of the above lamented officer are about go be removed'from their resting place in the Taupo district, and conveyed to the Napier Cemetery, where, as most of our readers are probably aware, a monument to his memory has for some time past been erected. A public funeral will take place on the occasion, and the band of the Rifle Volunteers are now engaged in practising the " Dead March in Saul." It is expected that the body will be brought to town some time next week.

An Inquest was to be held at 3 p.m. to-day at the Napier Hotel, on the body of a myn named Peter Gordon, which was found in a creek at Pohui on Sunday last. The hour was too late for us to obtain a report, but the particulars, as far as we are informed, were as follow : —Gordon, with others, had been working in the Pohui bush, and, having been drinking freely, was attacked by delirium tremens. He was carefully watched by his companions, and did not show any tendency to do himself an injury. Thinking to divert his mind, one of them recommended him to go the hut of a man known by the name of «■ Corky," who lived at some distance The deceased shortly afterwards went away so quietly as to escape observation, and on a search being instituted, was not to be found. " Corkey's " hut was visited, but he had not been there. One of the men then left to report to the police that the man was missing, and started towards Meanee. After descending the steep bank of the creek already mentioned, at a point where a tree thrown across the stream serves as a bridge, the man discovered the body of his missing companion, in about five feet of water, beneath the bridge. He called to his mates, and with great difficulty the body was conveyed up the bank. The man then proceeded to Meanee, and reported the circumstance to the police. It was at first intended to hold the inquiiy at Pohui; but it was found impossible to obtain a jury in that wild and sparsely populated district A hprse and cart were therefore sent for the remains, but heavy rain setting it, it was t delayed, and at the foot of the Patoka mountain, —the ascent of which must be seen to be appreciated—the cart was forced to stop. This was on Wednesday evening. Next morning the body was conveyed on a sledge to the cart at the loot of the Patoka, a distance of eight miles, and, it being impossible to proceed further, it was left in the cart untended till Thursday morning, when the journey from thence to Meanee was begun. The body, we believe, reached Napier this morning, after having been conveyed a distance of about forty miles, in bad weather, over some of the roughest country in the Province, that the requirements of the law might be complied with. —We will publish the result of the inquest on Monday.