THE LATE MR DONNELLY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 6 January 1911, Page 5

THE LATE MR DONNELLY.

BRINGING IN HIS REMAINS. AN ARDUOUS TASK. Mr J. Pryor, who discovered the remains of the lato >ir Thomas Donnelly, returned to Masterton about six o'clock' last evening in company with Constable Anderson and Mr James Petrie, who ,went out yesterday morning to bring in the corpse. The remains were, it appears, found on the face of a cliff-about forty feet' - above the bed of the Maungatarere stream. There was evidence on the top of the cliff, about i ; gln> feet higher,' that the unfortunalo man had gathered bracken and made for himself a bed. He had apparently been taken.; with some illness and lain on the improvised bed until, ' either in his death struggle or in an ' endeavour to make liis way to the water's edge, he had shooed over the cliff. In falling, he struck a: * log, a portion of which had pane- > ' trated his skull and liin back. It was with some difficulty, and with the aid of a ropo, that the regains were loweredto t]K»: river bed. Constable Anderson and Mr Anderson (a • settler wlio .was assisting himV slung the remains on to a pole and carried them for "about a mile and a- <: half down the river-bed,* most of , the time up to their knees in water-. Tlience they uroceeded through the bush for a similar distaiK,;' to Mr Thompson's housej arriving in town as stated above. It'is evident that Mr Donnelly had been prospecting in : the neighbourhood of the spot - where he found, as several specimens were found where the body lay. The inquest will be held this morning, at ten o'clock, by Mr J. , T. M. ' Eornsby, District Coronor.