CHRISTCHURCH. May 20.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2201, 21 May 1879, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH. May 20.

Entries for the Canterbury Coursing Club Birthday Meeting close to-morrow night, and the draw will then take place. At the next University examination there will be 32 candidates for the B.A. degree. 20 go up for the first section, and four school teachers ; six for the second section, and two teachers. 13 of these are competitors for senior scholar- ) ships, two for honors, and four for the degree of L.L.B. One schoolmaster is going up under the Government regulations. On Monday morning a man named August Tiegs came by his death in a very untimely manner. H« waa m laborer residing at Oxford, but working on the Sheffield branch railway. It appears that he, and others who had been discharged from the service, had repaired to Cassia v's hotel, Kowai Pass, to procure refreshments, and before going home early on Saturday morning, a man named Hugh Henry saw Tiegs lying on the verandah outside the house, but as the place was not open he did not move or interfere with him. Shortly after this the man was found by others totally insensible, and removed in a dray to Oxford. A doctor was called in, but Tiegs was then dead, though shortly before this he had uttered some unintelligible words. Of course the doctor refused to certify to the manner of his death, and the matter is left in the hands of the police. An inquest was held to-day, at which a verdict of " Died from apoplexy" was returned, with a rider to the effect that the proprietor of the hotel did not look properly after his house, or he would have found the man lying down. This will be reported to the Liceusing Bench.