AFTER MANY DAYS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 18

AFTER MANY DAYS.

A BODY FOUND AT PORT CHALMERS. Whilst proceeding to work at Port Chalmers about 7.30 a.m. on the 4th Mr Alfred Larking noticed a humau body lying on the beach at Carey's Bay, having apparently been left there by the receding tide. The .' police were at once notified, and Constable* .White and Fraser recovered the body and conveyed it to the Morgue for identification. The remains were very much decomposed, the head and both arms being missing from the body. The only clothee ■ on the remaine were the boots and socks, and by t<heee the body was subsequently identified by Mj> William Sutherland as being that of his father, who was drowned on June 15 last whilst procefeding in a boat from Port Chalmers to Otakou. About 4 p.m. on that date deceased left Carey's Bay in his boat, and next morning some of the 'boat fittings were picked up on the beach near deceased's homo at Otakou, and hie boat was picked up ahortly afterwards on a sandbank near the .powder magazine. An exhaustive search failed to locate the body, ■which has apparently lain in the water all this time, and it is a somewhat grim coincidence that it should be recovered fully seven months later within a few yards of j the spot where deceased embarked upon j his last trip. i