A LONELY END.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 115, 17 May 1909, Page 8

A LONELY END.

ELDERLY MAN FOUND DEAD, This morning at 10 o'clock, Mr. Arthur Pickerill, who has been in business as a storekeeper at Maranui for some years, was discovered dead in his bed. A letter-carrier, E. Ambridge, going his ronad, called at deceased's place about 10 o'clock, and, receiving no response to his knockings, looked through a window, and saw Pickerill lying on the bed. He communicated with the police, and Mounted-Constable • Sim went out and found that the body was quite cold. There are no apparent marks of violence on the body, which has been removed to the morgue for the inquest. Mr. Pickerill wa& an elderly man, a native of Nottingham, and lived aloue on 'the premises.

The date of the departure of H.M.S. Challenger has not yet been definitely fixed. This morning the crew were busy at torpedo practice. Although the cruiser had her full complement of men, the captain kindly made room for three youths from the training ship Amokura. The death of Mr. John Swan, a very old resident of Wellington, occurred this morning. The deceased — who was born in York, England, and was in his 70th year — died in his sleep. Mr. J. S. Swan, the well-known architect, is a sou • of deceased. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister tor Agriculture, left this morning on a \isit iof inspection to the Ruakura E/pcri.mental Farm and to Rotorua. He will •be absent from Wellington for «ljo-it •ten days. Police Commissioner Dinnie left for Hawkcs Bay this morning. Messrs. Levien, Shallcrass and Co. advertise particulars of a sale of household iurnituro and effect* to be held at tho Ocotetl Auction Rcfl»i, Wiiliiatreot, to-