INQUEST,

Dunstan Times, Issue 736, 26 May 1876, Page 2

INQUEST,

An inquest was held on Monday last at the Victoria Hotel, before \V. L. Simpson. Esq., coroner, on the body of James C. Campbell, a shepherd on the Morvern Hills Station, who came by his death on Friday evening last, by falling from his horse while riding from Cromwell home. Evidence was given by C. Colqnhoun, who was in company with the deceased, from which it was gathered that deceased had apparently been imbibing pretty freely during the day, but was quite capable of riding home. Mr J. Marsh saw the deceased fall from his horse, and dismounting, turned the body over, and was of opinion that the man was in extremis. A cart coming by at the moment, the body was removed to Perriam’s Hotel, Lowburn. A surgeon was sent for, and on the arrival of Dr Corse he pronounced life extinct, and that death must have been instantaneous. The jury, in accordance with the above facts, found a verdict of “ Accidental Death.” The deceased was about 40 years of age, a native of Rosshire, Scotland, and had been sixteen years in the Colony; he was unmarried, and had no known relatives in New Zealand. One of the jurymen called attention to the fact of it being an ordinary occurrence for passing equestrians to be startled by the rushing out of a ferocious dog near the spot whore the accident occurred. This fact was corrobo rated by several persons, and the coroner directed the attention of the police to the suppression of the nuisanco.—Cromwell Argus.

Some months ago an Oregan man named bis girl baby after Queen Victoria, and wrote to the Queen to that effect. Not hearing from her Majesty, he changed the child’s name to Hannah, and went out and pounded the first Englishman he met.