TELEGRAMS THE HON. J. A. MILLAR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1914, Page 3

TELEGRAMS THE HON. J. A. MILLAR

DEFINITE RETIREMENT. (IT TILE«!U?H— SPECUb TO THE POIT.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Any doubt as to the Hon. J. A. Millar's retirement from active political life is settled by the following extract from a letter received from, him by a Dunedin pressman. The ex-Minister cf Railways saye : "I am sorry to have to leave the old place where my boyhood days were spent and my life friendships formed, but fate has decreed it, so I must accept. I know by little things which take place now and again that 1 could not stand the strain of an election contest. s6 I have decided to nurse whatever health is left to me." PRODUCE MARKET DULL VERY LITTLE DEMAND. (BY TELEGRAPH— SPECIAL TO THE POST.) DUNEDIN, This Day. % Not for years has the shipping trade in produce from Dunedin been as dull as it is at present. It is stated that the trade has never picked up from the strike. There is very little demand from the North for oats, and then buyers' offers do not reach the farmers' values. Business has been done on the basis of 2s l£d f.o.b. for A grades— a price considerably lower than is usual at this time of the year. Somo forward business up to December has been taken on by speculative merchants as low as 2s, but trade in grain generally is slack. Farmers do not show a keen I desire to sell, and it is stated that close on 10,000 sacks of oats are stored in Dunedin till the market price increases*. SCOTT MEMORIAL CAIRN VISITED BY EXPLORER'S SISTER. (IT TBLECUUPH— SPECIAL TO TBI POST.) DUNEDIN, This Day. ' ! Mrs. Campbell, a sister of the late Captain Scott, arrived from the North in the Moeraki. On Saturday afternoon she drove down to Port Chalmers with Mrs. Lindo Ferguson. There she was met by the chairman and the members of the Scott Memorial Cairn Committee. The cairn constitutes a striking feature of the landscape, as it stands on the rocky eminence overlooking the wharf from which Captain Scott sailed on his fatal trip to the South Pole. Mrs. Campbell leaves by the Moeraki for Hobart. | (PRESS ASSOCIATION.) I DARFIELD MOTOR FATALITY CHRISTCHURCH, 17th May. An inquest was opened to-day concerning the death of Mark Edward Isher, a motor-cyclist, who was found in a dying condition near Darfield on Friday night. Dr. Westenra, who conducted the postmortem examination, said that deceased had evidently been thrown violently on the handles of the motor-cycle he/ was riding, causing injuries to the heart which resulted in death. Another witness named Harper gave evidence that from an examination he had made of the locality, it would appear that deceased was riding the cycle 1 along the macadamised part of the road when he suddenly swerved to the side on to the grass track. The motor became embedded in a rut, and in trying to extricate the machine the rider would be thrown on to the handle bars. The inquest was thsn adjourned till Tuesday at Dairfield, to enable further evidence to be given. OLD MAN BURNED TO DEATH HOKITIKA, 17th May. A fire occurred here this morning, when a four-roomed cottage occupied by two old men was destroyed. One of the men, James Ferguson, was carried out of the building before it was gutted, but it was found that he had succumbed. Deceased came from South Westland to attend the recent jubilee celebrations. He was a single man, 72 years of age, and leaves no relatives in the Dominion. An inquest will be held to-morrow.