INQUEST.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 129, 18 August 1871, Page 5

INQUEST.

An .inquest was held fit Stewart's B ill:tr.i v i 10l ol on Tuesday last, before H. W. Kobinson, Esq., coroner, on view of the'body of a Csiuaman named A'« Huen, w'un the following evidence was adduced':'

Ah \v;is sworn to interpret truly from Chinese to 'English an ! from English to Chinese *~s: it l i, I live at -Vaseby,.and am a miner. Ah l'uan, being sworn, s.itli, 1 am a gardener, and come from lloilg Kontr. 1 knew the 'deceased Ah iluen. lie cam '"o Dunedin in the same ship with me about eight days auo. (e was unwell on board ssip. lie could not eat. It is six days sin«e we left Dunedin together. Oil the journey he complained of cold, and could not eat. lie died on Monday morning last between five and six o clock, lie died in the waggon. 1 was there at the time. IK was I weuty-four years old. He was a native of a pla.ee about one hi n<iivt! miles from liorig Koiii. Tie had not a sixpence. The deceased was a cousin of mine.

Daniel M'Conne]], being sworn, s;iith —lam a carrier. I have seen tie body lying hero'dead. It is that of a Chiiirimau who left Duiiediu with me last Tuesday. I have nineteen Chinamen with me altogether. I was to take, them to Queenstown. I noticed, about four days after I left Dunodin, when about Palmerslon, that he was more delicate than the others. I let him and the old man, the last witness, ride when 1 made the others walk. Last Sunday night I camped at Pigroot. 1 was taking the covers off inv horses on Monday mo rim. g about seven o'clock, when the old s- an (Ah fuan) came to me and said, "Man dead." I weut to the waggon and saw that he was dead. About twelve other Chinese had been sleeping in the waggon. lie seemed rigid, being straight. I thought he had been dead three or four hours. 1 brought the b dy as far as the Plough Inn. L know nothing of the deceased except us my passenger. They all seemed poor, as they had not bought themselves tents. Daniel M'Cambridge being sworn, saith : I am a duly qualified medical practitioner, and reside at Naseby. 1 have seen the body here lying dead. If is much wasted. No marks of violence are to be observed on if, My belief is that he was a person of very weakly constitution, and that the exertion and hardship ot the voyage and journey were too'much for his strength. I believe the cause of death to have been mere general debility and excessive f;i tig lie. The jury returned a verdict of " Died fro.m natural causes."'