LYTTELTON.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 778, 15 January 1853, Page 3

LYTTELTON.

An inquisition was taken before the Coroner and Jury at Lyttelton, on Monday last on the body of a poor lad named Daniel Childs, who met his death by a singular accident on the previous afternoon. Running along the hill- j side just below the Sumner-road, he put his j foot on a portion of loose rock of considerable j size, which rolled over, throwing him before it i ou his back, and passed over his head, causing extensive fracture of the skull, and of the cervical vertebm. His companions, lads of about his own age, carried him up to the road, and Mr. Godley and Capt. Simeon coming up at the time, carried him at once to the hospital, where he was found to be quite dead. —Verdict, Accidental death. — Lyttelton Times. December 25. Through private letters from Auckland, we learn that the Bishop of New Zealand will not be here till February or March, owing in some measure to the difficulty of procuring seamen to mann his schooner. "We regret to learn the demise of the Rev. A. O. Cotton, chaplain of the William Hyde. Those who knew him cannot fail to regret his loss, especially the passengers by the William Hyde. When here he wished very much to have taken the duty of the sheep stations, could it have been arranged. Since he left in February, he has been taking the duty of a district five miles from Auckland, without stipend. He went a bush tnp up the Waikato, got a chill bathing, and had a sunstroke upon it. He was insensible during the last ten days of his illness, but an unfavourable issue was not anticipated. He had intended coming down here with the Bishop. — Ibid, January 1.

The North Road. — The communication from Christchurch to Baxter's Ferry along the North Road has been opened by the partial completion of the works on that line. The portion of the road which traverses the flax swamp between Papanui Bush and the Pururekanui River is as yet only just marked out, the work having been suspended in consequence of the flooded state of the swamp. The surface, however, is now sufficiently hard and sound to enable drays to traverse it by keeping the track a little off the proper line. This part will be finished about the middle of January. The line as originally laid out by the Surveyors of the Association crossed the Waimakiri a little beyond the seventh mile from Christchurch. where, as the river is too shallow for a ferry, j it would have to be traversed by an expensive bridge. The line has, therefore, been altered and carried further down the river to a point opposite Teaika's Pah, where it is deep enough for a ferry. The North Branch of the river will also be crossed by a ferry at the 11th mile from Christchurch. The saving in distance from Kaipapoi and Rangiora to Christchurch by this line over the whole track round Riccarton and Papanui JBusb.es, is about seven miles and a half. — Ibid, January 1.