MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.

Colonist, Issue 1, 23 October 1857, Page 2

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.

A TottN'o lad of tho. name of Charles Hush, about fourle.cn years of age, mot iritis his death under the following circumstances :— On the afternoon of Monday last, the boy and a man went on foot to a bush in Brook-street Valley, on the road to the Dun Mountain, to out trees. The tree which they had just been cutting, when the accident occurred, was not much thicker than a man's thigh, near the root, nnd had been almost cut through. The boy had calculated the distance to run to escapo from under the falling tree, but as he, was running away got his foot caught in a root and fell on his face, and the cut tree came down upon his head. T} lo boy was heard to give a scream, and did not speak a word afterwards. . • The man who accompanied the lad ran to the house in which the boy lived to give information, and afterwards went with assistance to the sufferer. The parties belonging to the house went for Dr.' Thebing, who on walking to the house met tho parties, who were carrying the boy on a wooden litter. He was taken to the hb\ig C and laW upon a sofa, and within- one hour lie died in a quiet state. The motlffer was presuut when her son expired, having met, tho mournful company on their way with the dying youth to her house. A Coroner's inquest has been held over the deceased, when a verdict of " Accidentally killed by the falling of a tree, and not otherwise " was" returned.

Hail Stoiim.—A severe shower of hail'fell oh" Monday last, and wo saw in" Bridge-street sundrv.bal'ls had been collected, and f>oys"cn»-a£red in a "fight moro harmless than cngasnicnts w ith leaden bullets" or paper popguns of older youths. May our editorial bickerings—should; they* be engaged in—be ultimately equally harflW if they do not produce much good ; but we would rather see a beneficial result from well ordered controversy without personal ■factorility. ; ■ ik .