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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1048, 21 June 1871, Page 2

The survey of the railway from Nelson to Foxhill has been commenced. Efforts are being made to establish a cloth factory iu Ciiristchurch. Mr Cassius, of Hokitika, is shipping wool and hides to Mel bourne by the intercolonial trailing vessels, At Timaru, a carter has been fined 50s and costs for not keeping on the proper side of the road. The agitation in favor of a Permissive Bill has extended to one or two country districts of the province of Nelson. Hokitika, like Westport, is suffering from the encroachments of the sea, which has undermined a portion of the whaif to such an extent that it is expected to fall in. We learn from a late Canterbury paper that something more than tons ot preserved meats and tallow have been foi warded for shipment from Meat Preserving Factory since the commencement of the present season,

The salary, of the Mayor of Ajicklaud lias been fixed at ,£250 per annum. The Kawakawa (Bay of Islands) coal mines continue to be actively worked. Indeed the demand for coal so great that, vessels are often subjected bo con siderable delay before they can succeed in getting a cargo. The Little Omaha correspondent of the Southern Cross'say*:—On June 12th, an inquest was held at the native settlement, before J. M. Murray, Esq, coroner, on the body of a man who had been found washed ashore in a sandy bay, near the entrance to the harbor, by cbe natives, who took the very wise precaution ot covering up the body with earth, to secure it from dogs, &c. The jury, on being sworn, proceeded to view the body, after which the following evidence was adduced :—David (a native) deposed that he went down to the beach on June Bth, between seven and eight o'clock a m , to get some fire wood, when he saw something white on the sand, and on going near io he saw it was a body, which he supposed had washed ashore from some vessel ; he immediately came back and told Teuetahi. Thete was no clothing on the body, except a small piece round the wrist as se#n by the jury. Tenetahi (a native) deposed to having seen the body, and he immediately caused it to be covered with earth, He reported it to the settlers on Saturday; he could not inform the settlers earlier on account of the wet weather. The body was found jit spring tide mark, and had evidently been there three or four days. Peter .Antonio deposed that from certain marks he believed the body to be that of one of the crew of the schooner J ulia. —The jury returned the following verdict, " That the body now viewed was found drowned, but that how it came into the water there is no evidence to show. The marks on the body, and the fragments of clothing, conesponding as they do with those -observed by one of the v itnesses, Peter Antonio, on the man Jack, who sailed from Big Omaha in the schooner Julia, afford strong presumptive evidence that jbhe body now viewed is that of the man Jack reported drowned. The present decomposed state of the body renders positive identification impossible.''— The remains were placed in a coffin (which was provided by the jury), and buried decently near the plaee where he was found. Mr Pieken read the service.