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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 71, 19 July 1873, Page 2

Compensation.—A public meeting is to be held at the Argyll hotel this afternoon for the purpose of deciding on the steps necessary to be taken in bringing the question of compensation to sufferers by the native outrages in Poverty Bay, before the Colonial Parliament. This matter is of the greatest importance; and we doubt not that those who are interested will combine their energies in furthering the object in view.

A horrible "discovery has been made in the coffin of a pauper at Bethnal Green Workhouse. A woman had died in the London Hospital, and her body was brought back by the contractor to the workhouse for interment. One of the officers, a Mr. Currowes, thinking it of an unusual size, opened it, and found five bodies instead of one. A dead child lay on- each of the woman’s arms and two more were squeezed in at her feet. The contractor, Burridge, of Bethnal Green-road, stated at the coroner’s inquest that one body came from Guy’s Hospital and the others from Milbank Prison. He acknowledged having kept them in his private mortuary from periods ranging from a fortnight to nearly six weeks. The inquest has been adjourned to obtain an analysis of the stomach of one of the children, in which suspicious indications were observed.