An inquest has been held before Dr. Coward, coroner for Christchurch, on the body of William Henry Piper, a child of three and a half years of age, who was drowned in the river tleathcote, near the lime kilns at the back of the Rev. Mr. Wilson's. The jury returned a verdict of accidental deatii, and at the same time desired that the attention of the authorities should bo directed to the dangerous state of the road iv this locality, which turns abruptly round a steep and unenclosed portion of the river. The following reproof has been sent from England to some Canterbury settlers.
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Colonist, Volume V, Issue 467, 15 April 1862, Page 3
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