CHRISTCHURCH.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3562, 8 December 1882, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH.

December 8

The Linseed Company are going to build their .works on a block of three acres close to the tunnel. One grower has forty acres of flax under crop at Southbridge showing beautifully. The straw is upwards of three feet in length already. At the inquest on the young woman Berry, who was found dead in her bed, the medical evidence showed apoplexy to be tbe cause of death. There is an outbreak of scarlet fever at South Kakaia, which is spreading very rapidly. The public school has had to be closed in consequence. Harry Clark, a lad who baa tried to shoot himself with an unloaded gun not possessing a trigger, and who had tried to cut his throat in disgust at his non-suc-cess, was brought before the R.M. Court yesterday. It appears that he ia of weak intellect, and being a cripple, his inability to work preyed upon his mind. The magistrate decided to see whether the lad could not be admitted into the Ashburfcon Home.

Robert Ewing has been committed for trial on the charge ef setting fire to his house, which was insured for £106. Bail was allowed—himself in £100 and two sureties in £50 each.

Hobbs and Goodwin, totalisator croprietorfi, were sued yesterday for £1 11s by the holder of a ticket which had been refused payment at the last races. The ticket was unstamped, and defendants said it was impossible to issue an unstamped ticket. On the day in question the wind had blown a number of unetamped tickets into the grass, and the money and tickets registered exactly corresponded, leaving plaintiff's out of the calculation, and the inference was that plaintiff had never paid for his ticket in the usual way. The magistrate sided with defendants, and gave judgment for them. It appeared that plaintiff had not got the ticket himself, but gave his pound to another man to get it for him, and the latter obtained one for himself, giving plaintiff the unstamped one.