TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2216, 21 September 1886, Page 2

TE AROHA.

|FltOM OUII OWN CORHBSPONDENT.] TkAkoha, Monday. Ykstkrday afternoon the body of a man respectably dre«sed was observed near the bank of the river, a little above the railway bridge, by a lad passing that way. He at once gave the information to some persons in the neighbourhood, and the body was quickly brought to the bank, and was conveyed in charge of the police, who were speedily on the spot, to the Palace Hotel, where it now lie*. It is that <>f a man five feet nine or ten inches in height, with light hair and beard, slightly bald, and apparently about forty years of age. He was clad in black or dark coloured garments, in the pockets of which a note-book and some papers were found, but no money or valuables of any kind. The deceased is not known here, but two or three persons who have \ iewed the remains believe them to be those of a person who, about a fortnight ago, spent a day in the township looking for employment as clerk or b>ok-keeper, and had not. been seen .since. It is expected the papers found, when they are in a condition to be deciphered, will afford some clue to his identity. An inquest will probably be held to-day. An inquest was held on Saturday by Mr J. E. Wright, .T.P., and a jury on the remains of Mrs Emily Rawlings, who died here so suddenly «n Friday forenoon. After a full enquiry into all the circumstances the jury without retiring gave a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony, that death resulted from natural causes, A hor-ie of some value, belonging to Messrs Comes Brothers, butchers, died yesterday morning under suspicious circumstance^. It was well and at work on Saturday, but was taken suddenly ill at night and expired not long afterwards A post mortem examination of the animal by Mr Jones, veterinary surgeon, revealed tho fact that it had been poisoned with arsenic, but how or by whom it was administered has not yet been discovered.