CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4300, 12 October 1882, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

This day.

The Curator of the Domain has succeeded in rearing about 200 out of the 300 olive stock sent down by Grovernment. At the time they were received it was thought,th^ey would be a failure, as they looked like a mere shrivelled up bundle of sticks, but the plants are exceedingly healthy, and will be ready for distribution next autumn. Mr Armstrong discarded the suggestions to propagate by truncheons, and employed the ordinary method, hence his success.

An Untimely Death.

The inquest on the man Brad burn, found dead yesterday, showed that he had been served with two nips of brandy in the White Hart Hotel, and fell asleep in the bar; abont 11 ; o'clock in the morning he was roused up, and the pantry man, assisted by another, took him Up and put him in a paddock near the hotel, and nolioing the sun was striking hot on him, thoy propped him up against the fence and left him there till he was found dead in the. afternoon. They said they thought he was only drunk, and there was nothing serious the matter with him. The medical evidence showed that he died of congestive apoplexy, hastened, no doubt, by the alcohol he took. One of the two men who took him out of the hotel appeared at the inquest too drunk to give evidence, and the case was romanded till Monday, as the coroner and police both considered him an important witness. The fellow ran away before the proceedings terminated, but was soon recaptured. . „ . ■ ' ,