FOUND DEAD.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6070, 2 October 1894, Page 3

FOUND DEAD.

■ ■ »■■..., A man named James Nash, about 45 years of age, a bachelor living on a section of six aores of his own inKoubiey's paddock, south of the borough, was found dead on hiaseotion about 530 last evening. He had been harrowing ground for potatoes, with one horae. A neighbour, Mrs Mahoney, noticed the horse standing in the paddock about half-past three, and again from time to time, until sbe thought there must be something wrong, i She told her father-in-law, Bobert Mahoney, senior, of her fears, and he went over and found tho dead body of Nash lying about eightoen yards behind the harrow. The police were sent for, and Sergeant- Mb jor MoDonald, Detective Livingstone and Constable Crawford went out. Tho body had not been disturbed, and it appeared that deceased had fallen and died without a struggle, as there were no marks of any movement on the toft freshly cultivated sur» face» Tbo body wan then quite cold It was taken to the Shamrock Hotel to await a post mortem and inquest to-day Deceased is said to be a native of Bath, England, and to have no relatives in this colony, but a brother in Victoria. He was possessed of a little house property in Kensington, besides the section he lived upon, whnro ho had a comfortable and well kept little cottage He had not, so far as is known, complained of any ailment.