Runaway Accident, Rangiora —Yes terday two horses in a dray belonging to Mr H, Blackett bolted from the railway station Li proceeding past Sinclair’s Junction Hotel one shaft of the dray was brought into con tact with a saddle horse belonging to 0 Webster, Gust. The shaft entered the body of the horse a distance of twenty-two inches. The animal was subsequently shot by Mr Wheeler. Its owner claimed £io damages. Sad Occurence at Stoke. —On Wednes day morning a respectable man, named William Perdue, residing at Stoke, between Gust and Fernside, was missed from his home, and search at once made. On Thurs day a neighbor, Mr Macaulay, reported the affair at the Oxford police station, when almost immediately afterwards it was stated that Mr Perdue’s body had been found at the bottom of a dry well 103 ft in depth on his own property, half a chain from his house. The top was partially covered with manuka sticks, and observing these to have been removed the well was examined on Wednesday by means of a lighted lantern lowered into it without any result; but on Thursday during a second examination a caudle only being lowered, the body was found face downwards. A portion of the sides of the well where it lay had given way. The presumption is that the shade from the lantern prevented the searchers finding the body before. Macaulay went down to en deavor to raise it, but failed ; but a second neighbor, Mr John Doig, who was let down with a rope, succeeded in putting another rope round the body, by which it was lifted to the surface. On arrival of the police the corpse had been removed and laid out. So far as a superficial examination went, there were scratches on the head and face, with a few slight bruises on the body. His age was thirty-four ; he leaves a wife and his mother to lament his loss. An inquest will be held at Messent’s Halfway House to-day, before 0, Dudley, Esq., coroner. Lyttelton Yachting Club.— A general meeting of the members of this club took place on Thursday night last. There was a fair attendance, and Mr P. Cunningham took the chair. The minutes of the prior meeting having been read and confirmed, Mr W. 