CANTERBURY. [From the Lyttelton Times, May 20.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 922, 3 June 1854, Page 3

CANTERBURY. [From the Lyttelton Times, May 20.]

Accidents Near Christchurch. — We regret that we have to record the deaths of two persons in this neighbourhood from the severity of the storm on the night of Monday last. One of the unfortunate sufferers was the son of Mr. Green, of Papanui, who was on his return home from Port. The body was found on Tuesday morning' in a ditch by the road-side at the corner of Mr. Compton's land, and was conveyed into Christchurch by that gentleman. As there are houses on each side of the road at the spot where his body was found, it would appear that he must have been insensibly overcome by fatigue and cold, otherwise he would have sought shelter when it was so near at band. The other case was that of a workman named Angood, who with two other men was out with Mr. Croft in a boat on the estuary collecting shells to burn into lime. In making for shore, the boat was blown upon a sand-bank, and before it could be got afloat again, the darkness and rain i prevented the crew from knowing whereabouts to land. Upon gaining the shore Angood gave up, and could make no further exertion, but was carried by his companions for some five hours, when failing to find their way and overcome with fatigue, they laid him down, covering him the best way they could with spare clothes, fern, &c. On returning to search for him next morning, they missed the spot where they had laid him, and he was not found till towards midday, when life was just extinct. He does not leave either wife or child to suffer

by his death. Mr. Croft and the other men suffered great hardship, but we age glad to learn soon recovered from the effects of the night's exposure. Inquests have been held on both the bodies; at which verdicts of accidental death were returned.