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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1029, 9 March 1869, Page 3

Sudden Death of Mr. James Allen. — The painful task of recording the untimely death of Mr. James Allen, proprietor of the Evening News, has fallen to our lot, and the sad circumstances attending his end render the occurrence doubly distressing. Mr. Allen was on Wednesday evening in the enjoyment of his usual health, and retired to rest at the usual hour. It is supposed that the fine moonlight night tempted him to go out and bathe on the beach near his residence on the JSTorfch Shore. At any rate he was missed from the house, and a servant was sent to look after him, by whom the unfortunate gentleman was discovered lying dead on the beach at high-water mark. Dr. Stratford was sent for, and every endeavour was used in the meantime by Mr. Alison and other neighbours to restore animation but in vain. Upon examination a severe cut was found on the left side of the forehead, apparently the result of a fall on the rocks, and it is supposed that, falling, Mr. Allen must have been stunned by the blow, and suffocated by the flowing tide. The deceased gentleman was much respected in town. As a journalist, he was a man of considerable ability, and his establishment on a firm and respectable footing of the paper of which he was proprietor, has been a monument of his perseverance and energy. The mournful occurrence has of course been a sad blow to his family, and a source of grief to his surrounding neighbours. An inquest will be held on the remains to-day. — Af. Z. Herald, March 5. New System of Meat-Selling. — The Otago Daily Times gives an account of the new system of selling meat adopted in Dunedin, thus : — " The new system of auction sales of meat in small quantities appears likely to prove a great success in Dunedin. A short time since Messrs. Power, Pantlin, and Co., instituted these sales weekly at an establishment in Bat-tray-street, and the large measure of patronage they received from persons who preferred to purchase a side or so of mutton at a low rate to getting it in smaller, though perhaps more convenient, quantities at a higher price from the regular butchers, induced the latter to co-operate and open a similar establishment adjoining the first one. Both these places,' that of Messrs. Power, Pantlin, and Co., at the horse bazaar in Eattray-street, and that of the unitod butchers at the shop of Gardener and Co., two doors distant, are now open every Saturday morning and evening for the sale of meat by auction. At present these auction sales are restricted to mutton and lamb ; but there is little doubt that, as the system becomes better' organised, they will include beef, veal, and, in fact, all kinds of butcher's meat. The sales commenced last Saturday evening at six o'clock, there being, we believe, about 50 sheep and three lambs on sale at Gardener and Co.'s, and about the same quantity at the rival establishment. The whole quantity was sold in a very short space of time, chiefly to working men, who took one, and, in a very few instances, two sides each, the price for small sides being in some cases as low as 3s. a side, and in others as high as Bs. 6d. for a side of lamb of the finest quality. The institution of these periodical sales cannot but be a great boon to all classes of society, and more particularly to persons having large families and but limited means."