INQUEST.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1964, 10 June 1880, Page 3

INQUEST.

An inquest was held at the Railway Hotel, Pleasant Point, on Tuesday, the Bth instant, before E. Beetham, Esq., coroner, and a jury of fourteen, of whom Mr W. Halstead was chosen foreman, on the body of Eliza Anne Morris. It was proved that deceased and her husband had quarrelled on ■Sunday, 30th ult., he being then so under the' influence of liquor that he has no recollection whatever of the particulars of his wife’s leaving home. Towards evening of the same day she went to the house of Mr John Grant, near Pleasant Point, and remained fill the afternoon of Tuesday, when she Started, hoping to find a dray crossing the river homewards, and saying that if she did Hot she would return. During the ensuing week her husband and others searched for her, , but nothing was seen of her till Mr Charles Nicholas, of Temuka, in crossing the river, saw the body upon a spit about 100 yards below the crossing-place. Constable Stanley at once had the body removed to the township, about a mile from where it was found. The jury at once found a verdict —“That the deceased was accidentally drowned while fording the Opihi.”