PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 67, 21 March 1911, Page 8

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Dressmaker's model for sale. Bicycle and mandoline want ;.urchasers. Partner wanted for "good spec.' A five-roomed cottage is to let. Cover of a motor-cycle gear-box hn% been lost. Dalgety and Co. advertise a spedal Flaxbourne entry for the Seddo i stock sale on the 29th instant. Additions to stock sale cataloging are advertised. ■ _ Young man wanted for butchering business. A second-hand cooking-range is in demand. Special meeting of L.O.L. No. 11,, to-morrow evening.

An Auckland telegram states that a meeting of the Auckland Shipmasters' Association endorsed the action of the Merchant Shipping Guild in approaching the Minister for Marine in the matter of the reinstatement of Captain Atwood, master of the Elingamite.

. "The drought now prevailing on the West Coast is the worst ever known there, 3' said Mr W. C. Kensington, Under-Secretary for Lands, t» a Wellington Post representative. The heat, he added, was v phenome»al for that part of the Dominion, and the rivers were lower than, anyone could remember. The ■ Hokitika River is a mere trickle 4 and in the Grey River they are taking out gold at a depth never before worked. On the other hand, the bush-burning operations have been most successful. In the Manila and Matakitahi valleys an area of 10,000 acres of bush have been burned, and if the rain comes fairly early it will mean A'very considerable impetus to settlement in general and the-dairying industry in particular.

A somewhat startling accident, though, fortunately,- not attended with any fatal results, occurred on the Mornington Corporation tramway system on Thursday morning (reports the Otago Daily Tiriies). ■ It appears 'that.immediately after the departure from the car-shed of a Maryhill extension car a truck containing two tons of coal, and which had just been brought' up from Dunedin on the main line, was > run through the shed to the coal bin at the rear of the power-house. "By some means the , attendant neglected to apply -the brakes in time, and the truck raced j down the hill in the rear of the rej treating Mary hill car. Before the j car reached the bottom of the hill I the .truck crashed into it, both' being badly damaged. The only occupants of the oar were the gripmaa (J. Duff) and a line repairer named J. Johnson, who was going to attend to a pulley along the line. Both men. : got off comparatively lightly, Johnson receiving a cut on the head and ' Duff receiving some minor injuries and a severe shaking.