SUDDEN DEATH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1909, Page 8

SUDDEN DEATH.

tBY TELEGKAFn. — TRESS ASSOCIATION.] NELSON, This Day. E. H. King, a young married man, son of Mrs. Anstice, draper, fell dead on Haven-road while going home to lunch to-day. Heart disease, for which he had been under treatment, was the cause of death.

"Do not imagine for one moment that the offer of New Zealand has been without a vast effect in this country," writes the London secretary of the Navy League to Mr. C. W. Palmer. ''People as yet have scarcely realised what it means. Canada, Australia, and the Cape must necessarily put on their thinking caps, and make up their niinds what share of naval responsib)lity they propose to bear in the future." In the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court to-day, an information against James M'Kee, for failing to maintain Rupert M'Kee, an inmate of the Boys' Training Home, Weraroa, was dismussed. Application by William Johnson for remission of arrears due on a maintenance order was dismissed. Totalisator takings at the recent Ellerslie meeting amounted to £40,318, and the bookmakers' fees to £2460. On the subject the Auckland Star observes that the "financial stringency" operates somewhat unevenly. In a letter to Mr. C. W. Palmer, Wellington branch secretary of the Navy League, the London secretary of the league remarks :— "So far as this side of the world is concerned, the British public appears to have taken the bit into its teeth and, rightly or wrongly, have woke up with the determination that at all costs they will maintain sea supremacy." •Mr. F. Glasgow, the well-known "All Black," met with an unfortunate accident on Wednesday last through his motor lamp blowing up. The Southland Daily Times states that 'Mr. Glasgow s eyes were somewhat badly scorched. A serious accident happened at the residence of a settler, Mr. J. Wouldes, at Kiritehero- (says the Thames Star). His eight-year-old son had found a detonator on the road, and taking his> younger 'brother and sister to see the "fun," placed the cap on the flame of a lighted candle, the result being a violent explosion. The youthful experimenter was badly knocked about. His face was injured below the eyes, the tops of two ■fingers were blow off, and received nuvmerous wounds on the body and hands. His two companions were also injured. Mr. A. C. Fife, late chief accountant of New Zealand Railways' has been appointed a director of the Wellington Investment Trustee and Agency Company, vice the late Mr. James Barry. Mr. Spencer Lorraine, well known in musical circles in Dunedin, who has decided to take up his residence in Wellington, arrived from the South yesterday. The Rev. W. Powell, of Bapalla, and Superintendent of Leper Home, spoke at the V.M.C.A. on Saturday evening on "Leper Work in India," and a large audience of men listened to him, on Sunday afternoon, speak on "India as it Is." Mir. Powell spoke of the down trodden condition of the women and the beneficent reforms introduced by Lord Morley. There are nearly a million lepera in India, and their condition is pitiable in the extreme. Captain Bollons, of the Hinemoa, has reported to the Marine Department that during his visit to Tauranga last week he found that one of the buoys in the Stella Channel had been perforated. The maximum penalty for damaging buoys and beacons is £200. Mr. T ; J. Tipping, of the Supreme Court office, has been appointed to a. position on the solicitor's staff of the Public Trust Office. Tenders to close at noon on 23rd June, are invited for the supply and delivery of the timber required for the erection of the proDoasd vice-re^al residence.