A SKELETON FOUND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 4, 3 December 1883, Page 2

A SKELETON FOUND.

I On the evening of the. Bth (says the Press) it was rsfartoi to the' policd that a skeleton had been found m Mr R K^gbtV Jyjsh -at Lairerick's B*y* Rjnks Penmsala. Sergeant Bioikea went over on the 9th, and, m company w i& '¥? <? D W 'OTTK tber spot. which is abou#Harfia^mife U pthehU under a precipice. The skeleton, when fonnd, was lying with the head and heels projecting outfr^m ths cave, indicauag that the body had been turned back double and pushed m. A short distance from the spot there was discovered a small Maori coffin r which had Mm hewh^t 0 f »" <?f wood. Tffishadia^p'afMtion Sown tha^midolew and wa& JofnajfnehteU' with red Tfichre at^ the end. A smaU^iece of matting wag i)fpand^wh^h>ad,nqi^pubt heen used to wrap the bodies- effcwo' chlldrenV at the bones of twA. children were found ,;uear.; the. place. ,::U&fortnnately, ( the mat hadjbeen pulled put roughly and the bones wereYscaltered about. The remains .were np donbt,,, those of a Mnori, Who mast have. been fift Xoiu ia !-.b.eighr< i Go searching^bout the spot a emal pawa shelL was found, with red ochre m ,it,, also a ; greenstone adw, • whalebone; needle, Bsa Jong, and several small pieses,of, greenstone, one of *rhich Jiad beenran eai>drop. From- the ap. pearancef t of ■ the. relics, it "is" probable Pthey had/been ; there, from forty to fifty years. Ther . littje , 'cpfsa ', vraa taken posiession ofby Mr Knight. .., . t „