Jane Ironside (a girl of 9 years old) said : I remember yesterday afternoon. About 4- o'clock my sister and I were going to the reserve for the cows. We went down to the hole under the railway viaduct, and my sister and I w--nt on to the raft which was floating in the water hole. My sister followed me as I went on first. I took a stick about six feet long and pushed the raft off tlie bank, it then went nnder water to the height of my kuees, and slipped from beneath us, and we both fell into the water. I thon only saw my sister's head, and she cri* d, " Mother." I managed to float out and got on to the bank. I only saw the top of her head after getting out.
To a Juryman : My sister and I were clear of one another when we went down.
This was all the evidence, and the jury returned a verdict — " That the deceased, Annie Ironside, was accidentally drowned on the 7th December, 1881, in a water hole in the Balclutha Borough Reserve close by the railway line."

CLUTHA ROAD BOARD.
The usual monthly meeting ofthe above Board was hold at Warepa ou the 19th uit. There were present — Messi's Dal gliesh (chairman), Crawford, Monfries, Ayson, and Sarginson.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.
A circular from the Treasury was read informing the Board that the usual annual subsidy of 10s in the £ on rates for the year ended March 1881, amounted to LMO 4s, and had been banked to the Board's credit.
