AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3947, 23 August 1881, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Tins day,

Mr Stanaway has returned from the wreck of the Kona. He went south of the wreck, and found nothing ; he then traversed from the wreck to the south head, about ten miles, and parallel t Shelly Beach he found the body of a young man, about 5 feet 9 inches, with good set of teeth, light hair, and no whiskers. All the flesh whs off the body, except the hands and feet. It was possibly washed off by the action of the tide. He had on a pair of white drawers, worsted socks with white tops, and halfsoled boots. He also found part of the ship's hatches lying twenty yards away, higher up on the beach ; five miles further north he found one of the vessel's coir warps; two miles north of that a keg of of butter and a mug. There was no sign of a boat anywhere. It is evident the vessel capsized at sea, and that the man whose body has been found tried to come ashore on the hatch, but was washed off in the surf, there being no other piece of wreckage within fire miles of the body. Mr Stanaway dug a hole in the sand above high water mark, aud buried the body path, the booraiiig of the surf for a burial serving H.e brought tip portions of the hand, ttnrl forwarded it to Auckland for identification. From, the doscription of the body found, it is neither that of Captain Kenneth McKenzie or his mate Smith. They were both men who stood about sis feet highland the former was dark complexioned.

There was no sign of the mail steamer at one o'clock.