LITTLE RIVER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2773, 19 May 1903, Page 2

LITTLE RIVER.

On Batorday Messrs Matson and Co. sold the property of Mrs Isles, nee Longey, situated next to Mr Nutt's Hotel, Little River. It brought £831, or no less than £41 10s per acre, Mr Nutt being the chaser. f The missing m\n has been found. The " Lyttelton Timts,-' a-iys :—The body pf Mr Henry Bachelor, of Little River, who has t.eon misßiog fop"'several days,* *fas i found on*' Sunday after/Soon, floating iv Harhou.T. It was seen about 3 p.m. ■by a man named Ford, at Corsair Bay, under the rocks near the Lyttelton Domain. The police were informed, and Constable Esboq went to Cors».>3*y in a boat. Finding it prac'.icil/y impossible !o g t the body inW - ihe bout, they fistena.l a line to it, towed it within the mules, and I tnded it at the H.rbour Board., boa-shed, where it wpk carried to the Morgue. It was decomposed, i nd bore marks of having been attacked by fish. It was identified by* the clothts, and also by tbe fact tbat a sugar mat was fastened to it. Mr Bitchelor was, it is stated, seen in the Lyttelton Domain last Friday week, carrying a sugar mat as ) swag £he floods have been bid. The water if over the bottom of the Graud Stand on tb| cour-e, and Buchamn's Read is in a btate. The road between Little River aojHP Birdling's Fiat is impassable owing to floo(jjf and slips, the water baiog up to the o|s boat he use. Mr Wilkin, is in Christchurch, and our correspondent telephoned ns yeitejf' day that skiffa were being brought frow* Christchurch to enable the Council's hands to reach the mouth of Lake Fcrsyth to stftrt it runnirg out.