THE LATE MR LISTER-KAYE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1522, 30 October 1883, Page 2

THE LATE MR LISTER-KAYE.

■. The Poverty. Bay correspondent of our contemporary tbe Star sends the .the Mowing detailed report of the inquest held at Ormond on Monday, October 22, on the'remains of the late Mr Lister-Kaye The remains consisted of leg bones, etc,, one elastic side boot, moleskin pants, part of a shirt, knife sheath, and belt.

Ralph Ashley, laborer, deposed—l was employed on Mr Hutchison's station last Marph, The station is : on the Waikohu river. I remember -Lister-Kaye being employed on the station. Don't know his Christian name, but he signed himself" G. H. Lister-Kaye." Do not remember the exact date of his disappearance from the hut, but it was about the end of February or the beginning of March. 1 just heard he had disappeared about 2 o'clock, frorii a man mamed Hackworth,'who asked me whether I had seen hfa. The impression was that he had 'done; away with himself, I do not know 'why they arrived at that conclusion, only that he had been sick' some time before with diarrhoea, and seemed depressed in spirits. He did not seem like a man who would commit suicide. I saw him the day before lie disappeared. He appeared to be all right, but complained of feeling very bad. After he had disappeared he was tracked to the bathing hole. I saw the tracks myself. I saw no tracks coming back. Have seen the remains in the coffin. I recognise the knife, sheath and belt; I saw him wearing theip the day before he disappeared. I also recognise the cuff on the bottom of the trousera, and the boots in the coffin, as belonging to Lister-Kaye, and seen on him the day before his death. They are Lister-Kaye's. By a juryman: Kaye was living in a hut by himself, and was employed as a shepherd. I have no doubt but that the tracks were Ins.

■John Ewart deposed: lam a stockman employed on Mr McLean's station. Remember the l'Bth October last. Found a skeleton supposed to be that of Lister-Kaye just on the edge of the Waikohu, and immediately gave notice to the police. Never saw Lister-Kaye alive to my knowledge, Constable Pegley deposed : I am a constablo residing at Ormond. The last witness came to me on Thursday evening. Acting on his information I proceeded to Waikohu. I saw Mr Ewart and went with him to the river and found a skeleton at the edge of tho water. It was partly covered with silt, and appeared as' if it had been covered with a landslip which had been recently washed oIF, The body was not complete; the skull being bussing. Everything I brought down has been produced to the jury. 1 know Lister-Kaye. The shirt 011 the skeleton is similar to what he used to wear. It is four miles from Hutchinson's station to where I fouud the body. Where the body was found is just below tho Willow Crossing on tin's side.

The jury returned a verdict of " Found drowned, but no evidence to show how deceased got into the viver."