PAEROA.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4593, 24 September 1883, Page 2

PAEROA.

[By Telegraph.] (FfiOM OUE OWKT COBRESPONDENT) .

Paeroa, This day.

Constable Graham returned from Karangahake on Saturday evening, bringing with him the bone 3of the human skeleton, referred to in your issue of that date. In order to reach the locality where the remains were found, it. was necessary to traverse about 4 miles of what was, at no very distant date, an almost impenetrable forest; but which now, however, is partly opened up by means of the Thames County track. The constable informs me that he searched the spot very carefully, but failed to find anything that would lead to the identity of the skeleton, which judging from the bleached state of the bones, must have been in the position in which it was found by -Jthe prospectors for a period of not less than 14 years. Just about that time, notwithstanding the hostile attitude of the Ouinemuri natives, there were quite a number of adventurous diggers, prospecting in this district for gold; rand it is within the, possibilities, that the skeleton in question is that of some unfortunate prospector, who,-having lost his way, succumbed to that king of horrors, starvation. The skeleton is not quite complete, the small bones being nearly all missing, but the bones of the arms and legs are thicker and longer than 1 ordinary, and the skujl is very large; being somewhat similar in shape to that of the.average aboriginal native; so tbafc s after all, the remains may be those of some dusky savage, who when out upon a pigeon hunting or kauri gum seeking expedition, met With the fate that ray imagination has already pictured for the prospector./