SUPPOSED CASE OF DROWNING

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 542, 9 November 1875, Page 2

SUPPOSED CASE OF DROWNING

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In oi»r issue of Tlja^a^yi. we reported the supposed drowning of a ma» rfbo left Major George's place, at the Piako, to buy provisions from Messrs Mowbray and Evens* Store. The man whose name we have since learned to be Henry Brown, was sent by Mr Wallace to the "store, about lour o'clock, on Monday afternoon, but as he c|id not return the same night, on the. ' following morning Mr Wallace made •search for him; He found the horse nfcar the bank of the Piako River, with the saddle ancl. bridle on, butfrio trace., of 'Brown, Swrpk . was wutiauetLihat evening and th 3 following by* Maj&c George, Mr-Tickkpeany, and 1 Mrr Wil. lacft, witfeont obtiinin^at^y cjatf as Jo hii wh^pei^^: however. wew ; traced, to ikfitoti and, these Weqt continued on, 4he\. opposite b«nV"of tbe,rivetv Tbere wat f a i»eav^ < ''t^4Sf in thefltreftmfat the time the unfor^nna^inajj staVt^i, and it is supposed that he being a bad rjiiej? and not knowing .the fwtfd^ his* hoTseJiad stumbled into « deep hole hear the 4brd' and thrrfw; its 'rider, who , jf ia supposed has been carried pver,'th.e ,&ll« a short distance from ,the .-.crQsatng.M It iv believed that hit body has become entangled in the sn*gs,in which case ' it is doubtful whether it will ever be recovered. Brown was a. new .arrival, having come out _by the . Immigrant ship British Empire, a few weeks ago. He was 35 years of age and unmarried, and as far as , can be ascertained has no frjQnds or relatives,in the colony. v