CORONER'S INQUEST.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 239, 13 September 1848, Page 2

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday an irquest was held, by Dr, D ivirp, at Wood's Hotel, on the body of Tamuapa. nn Abolighnl Nut.ye— lying dead st the Military Barracks. C. Dc Thieiry, swoin. — I have known dceied for about a month. I lvive seen him at the barracks \isitin<* his fiiends there. Inl \ay« tlurajht him to be very unwell, »nd be nppoied to gtt worse. Ho compl nned of sevu-e ria-n in the sMe and of spitting blood. I "ordered him to leave Hip I arracks. He said bo would go, but whs only waiting a vessel forTnuran^a. Tne last time I c aw him alive was the day befoie yesteulay, in the nni - "..n?. He was roiled u^ in his blanket, very weak. I luaid yegteiday fr^m t' n e nntivo on tliev>orks, al out 2 or 3 o'clock, that he bad just expired. Mr. Graham, cleik of works, nibtiucted me to acquaint the Courier of lm decease. \\ hnn«;i, a heathen Native, through the Intrrpreter, states — He knows the Native was sick for one mon h be-fore his de'\th. Knows he used to tplt blood. lie was in hospital, does n't Know when, nor theienson ( f his le iving it. Last Sunday he caw deceased vomit, Bnl on asking him \hz cause he siul he h-d dons so in consequo cc of some barU ho hid taken from anoti c native". He setmrd to get \vor?e alter t.-kiug t e baiL Eid not <.\j.cct he would tnve died so so mi. []c bad a b^d coigh and 'pit a good d al. Veidict, — Died dr>m n.iiural etudes. [That cause we believe to have been the pulmonary complaint to which the aborigine lace is so fa' nil y subiect, nhicb the constant u«e o[ the blanket so fearfully aggravate — and wi) eh the u'ler \\a tof e h lfer for ihem duiinsj their \isits to our towns so painfu'ly ennetide-s. — En.]