ACCIDENTS AND NATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6136, 24 March 1898, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND NATALITIES.

♦ [Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, March 23. Information has been received that a settler named Bevan, residing at Wade, has been f onnd dead. He went out rabbitshooting at Greenhithe, and subsequently some settlers came across his dead body with hia gun beside it.

When the 6.5 tram from town was crossing the North Belt, on its way to Papanui last night, a man who had evidently been imbibing too freely made a rush for it, and endeavoured to get on whilst it was in motion. He got hold of the guard iron, but was thrown down with considerable force and dragged some distance, narrowly escaping being run over. He lay for some minutes where the tram left him, and when he was picked up it was found that, though he had been severely shaken, he had escaped without any broken bones. An inquest was held yesterday, at Ashburton, before Mr R. Alcorn, J.P., actingcoroner, touching the death of : Peter Leslie, found drowned in the Ashburtori River on Tuesday, through the upsetting of a dray. The jury brought in a verdict of accidentally drowned.