CURIOUS PROCEEDINGS WITH MISS PORCH'S BODY.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 412, 5 January 1875, Page 2

CURIOUS PROCEEDINGS WITH MISS PORCH'S BODY.

We learn that the two men Nrho first recovered the body placed it in a canoe, tied up in the river nearwhereitwasfound. Two other men named lMillett and Waite heard of its whereabouts, ihey expressed their intention of giving it « decent burial. They recordings proceeded to the spot found the body, and took it to the Waikato Heads. Information of the circumstance reached Constable Limner, and he, accompanied the deceased s brother, started in pursuit They found the men at the Waikato Heads on Saturday. They had the body in an open boat and uncovered The constable and Mr Porch took charge of the body, and started back to Tuakau, where they arrived about, mid-day on Saturday. An inquest has been held and a verdict of accidentally (frowned returned. The proceedings of the two men who took the body to the Heads, are most ' mysterious and the police should certainly enquire very closely into the matter. We presume that the men were in the state usual to those working about Mercer viz., stupified from the effects of drink.

A. New York humorist s»y<:-Old Mr Collamore, who goesto our church, i. very deaf.. Last Sunday, v .the mid. of the service, Mr Hoff, who sits immedw ely be hind M . C Uamore, saw a spider walking up the latter • bald hei j His first impulse was to nudge him and tel Mm ahout rt. but he remembered that he was deaf, so he lifted his hand and brushed the spider off. Hoff didn't aim ' q«* h £ h enough and consequently, in his nervousness he h * Oo»a more a rather severe blow ; the old man turn -d round a v ftf »« te see who had dared to take such a liberty with him, and 'Hoff blpan to explain with gestures the cause of the occurfence But Collamore, in a loud roioe, demanded what he meant" It was painful for H.ff. Tne eyes of the who c condition were upon him, and he grew red in the taeei and in desperation exclaimed-' There was a ip.der on you, head ' ' A white place on my head, eh ? S>se'n there w what's that to you/ sa.d Comoro « you 11 know what rt i. to b« bald-headed yourself some day.' •It wa? a spider, hrieked Hoff, while the congregation smiled, and the > persoiration began to roil down his cheeks. Certainly it s wide ' "aid Collamore, 'and it's e ot more in it than voura But you et my head ttbne in church.' 'Mr Oollamore, fhr eked Hoff, 'there was a bug on your head, and I brushed ? off this way 'and Hoff made another gesture at Col amore s Vl The *Jm man thought he wa, going to fight him there and hen, and hurling his hymn-book at H iff, he .e«.d l the knee Un- .tool on the floor of the pew and was abou to bang Hotf when the sexton interfered. An cxpan.at.on was written on the fly-leaf of the hymn-book, whereupon Mr Collamore anoloaisort in a boisterous voice, and resumed Ins