with us th'sn, and appeared to^.be :;ih good health. Ho left his work on the 27th about 12 p.m. He appeared then allright, and worked as usual. I saw nothing different in him than what was usual. He knocked off work at 8 a.m. on the 28th; he appealed all right then. I came half way down to 'to the township with him, and left him this side of the gateway, near where Mr Banks lives. He made no remark to me except,wishing;me good morn ing. That was the last I saw of him. He should have again turned up to his work at 4 o'clock on Monday after noon following,- that would be the 30th inst. I went, to work as usual on the day, but he never turned up. When "he did not .turn up I put a Jshift in. my self, rieft off work at 12 o'clock at night. The next day I asked his son if he knew where his father was, and he said he did not. There was nothing to excite my suspicion that anything was wrong. I again asked the son if he had seen his father, and he replied that he had seen Constable Pardie, and that Pardie thought the deceased was in Waitekauri. I do not know the place, where the body was found- It wrs no part of' deceased's business to go"into any part of tho mine except where he was working. He never told me he had any intentions of going .. into any other part ef the mine.. He was sober at the time he was working, with me. There was no money due to ■' him, as he had only worked two shifts/ He had to work a shift to make the end of the month—pay day—before! Iwe were entitled to any money. I was on good terms with him, and knew no ' one who was -on bad' terms with dqr' s oeasod. ■

Thomas Gilmore deposed: I- am manager' of the Waihi GvM.-'Co/, , Waihi. My attention was called yes*. ' terday, a little after 6 p.m., to the fact that there was the remains of a man in the pass. It is called pass No. 4, filling in the pass, Martha adit level. I went dow,n- to see, and.' saw what I took to be a man's leg coming down. 