The search for the body of James Nelson does not appear to have been prosecuted in a manner calculated to ensure success, and the efforts have been altogether abandoned. It seems a strange thing that the body of a man who falls into about eight feet of water, at a time when a number of people are quite near the spot, should have disappeared in such a manner. It will doubtless find its way down the river with the first receding tide after it rises, if it has not been carried to sea ere this.
A lad named Alfred Crawler, a<?ed, 15, met with, a fatiil accident on Tuesday last at Car terton. He was engaged in falling a large, tall, straight tree on Hooker's Line, about 30iu through at the scarp. The tree leant towards the house of Mr E. Potts,and he had scarped it with a view to making it fall in a contrary direction. When the tree was about to fall lie warned his employer, Mr Funnell, who was near, to get out of the way. Mr Funnell-did so, and coming back when the tree was down found the diseased crushed dead under it. Assistance was ob tained,and the boay was dug out from under it. A.n inquest was held yesterday at the Taratahi Hotel by Dr. Spratt, the district coroner, and a verdict of accidental death was returnod. The diseased was the son of the late Mr Crawler, an old settler who for some years carried on the business of a tai lor in Wellington and subsequently became a sheep farmer on the Tarafcahi.—Standard

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
