him, and if lic.wouUVgj-ve them som© money:tbey would get a cab and Uke- him honie. .lie gave the money tp-a, man named Gow to pay for tii? cab. ..-;■' A son oi the deceased who was present asked if he couid question the witness as to why ha had btmdicd iiis. father out in the cold. He bad travelled the world over and had nev«r heard of suoli a thing. Mr iieethfl.iu said the question was out of ovder. John Duttcn (employed hi the Masonic Hotel) suid he went" into the dive at 10.35 p.m. Tlvi diseased was then asloeo in the Cttrd-roiim on tha floor. Witness rousj'lum by bathing his head and face with water, but failed, and then, with the as sistance of another man, thoy carried him up stairs and laid hum -m the right-of-way by the "I.3'tteiton Times" gate. This was about 10.50 p.m. Witness 3eft Mm then. The deceased never spoke. Uofore lie started to lock-up witness went to look for id pojiceman. He couid not bud a policeman, and then went about his duty. Ohark- M. Bi-obke, chemist, deposed that lie saw the deceased about 10.45 p.m. in the right-of-way. He appeared to be dyinsj, and was unconscious. There was a crowd about. w«fut to the telephone arid rang up Dr. .John Deainer. who i»ten-ed !iim , to the police. Witney then rang up the, police, who said they had uiready stnt a, man. When witness got back th_ constable ixwl arrived. The m_w was alive when wit rets-s 1e x t him * > img ur> a doctor, and he ■\ as dead \v i n lit, lLtunred Dm el bou caipio\<sJ in. the Lyttelton lipiej, Oibce dtposed that lie br*t €aw tlie in the card room of the dive of the lx*"l at 10 45 He _pp__red very drtmk, • an- w v speec.ile-s Ihf barman tried to wake him,' but could not, and he W-as carried out Witness 8 mate ' "ow the. nun, and ; -nitness «agjrft-.*ei:l tuat h' olw„ltt be sent \ home Mi Whittle tlnen ga\e wtnei-. tlo '. 