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Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12750, 24 March 1914, Page 4

| E. Hodren, a second-liaud dealer of Wanganui, was found dead on his premises yesterday morning. A sharp, short earthquake shock was felt in Palmemon at 12.16 a.m. This was preceded by a very slight shake. Auckland reports that the body of the middle-aged man who was found dead at the foot of a cliff has been identified as that of Stuart Lyell. i At a large meeting of farmers at j Blenheim on Saturday afternoon, Mr IH. D. Vavasour presiding, it was i unanimously resolved that steps | should be immediately taken to rej lieve the glut in the barley market | by shipping at least half the present i year's crop to the English market. A Sydney cable states that Lilian, another member of the Heaver family, has collapsed as a result of the Exeter railway disaster. She is partially paralysed. The Heaver family, it will be remembered, were aboard the fatal train en route to their mother's funeral, and only one of them escaped. The Bon Marche vrill lie closed at 32 o'clock to-day (Tuesday) to enable the assistants to attend the Australian Cricket Match. C. M. Ross and Co. trust that their friends will endeavour to do their shopping before that time. Wednesday will be observed as the usual half-holiday. C. M. Ross and Co. —Advt.

Speaking at Hokitika Mr Massey said he intends to go to London next year as representative of New Zealand.

Latest contributors to the Radium Fund are: —J. Morrison (Halcombe) £2 2s, J. McEllroy (Feilding) £1 Is, D. S. Forlong (Bunnythorpe) £1 Is.

W. Jones, a middle-aged immigrant, was found dead at Gisborne yesterday morning. He hnd been drinking and spent the night in she storm. The verdict at the inquest was death from pleurisy. |

Messrs Mellsop, Eliott and Co. have received advice that the Athenic left Hobart on Saturday afternoon at 3..10 and is due at Wellington on Wednesday night. She will probably berth on Thursday.

Edward Parker, a sailmaker and boxing master at the Wataki High School, while rabbit shooting on Sunday at Oamaru shot himself. Amputation of the left foot was necessary. Parker is progressing.

A meeting of twenty shipmasters at Auckland discussed Mr Fisher's proposal for a wireless compass on The Three Kings, and unanimously decided that a first-class light and fog signal is the only satisfactory and acceptable scheme of marking the dangers of. The Three Kings.

Following are the latest additions to the Martin Radium Fund:—Mrs A. H. Russell £IOO, W.8.N., Hawke's Bay, £lO 10s, G. H. E. Warburton £2 2s, Mrs Rowland *£2 2s, W. M. Moynihan £1 Is, Mrs M. Cohen £5 ss, Mrs F. J. Nathan £5 ss, and Mr F. J. Nathan £lO 10s.

A Hokitika message states that James Thomson, aged 19, second son of Mr J. W. Thomson, harbourmaster at Okarito, lost his life on Friday at Five Mile creek. He was taking stores up the creek in a boat, and not returning a search was made next day. The body was found on Saturday afternoon in the creek. *

A narrow escape from a very serious accident occurred at Napier gasworks railway crossing as the first train was arriving yesterday morning from Hastings. A taxi-drivet named John Black got his car right on to the metals before he observed the train upon him, and made a desperate effort to swerve off, but the engine caught the rear wheel and carried the car into the cattle stops, completely wrecking it. Black was thrown, with considerable force some distance out and escaped with a severe cut on the head. The crossing is a very dangerous one, several fatalities having occurred there, and the Government has been repeatedly urged to install an alarm.

Shortly after 5 o'clock last evening Palmerston Fire Brigade were summoned to a fire at a private board- • inghouse in Broad street> occupied by Mrs E. A. Strong, and owned by Mr Redwood. The fire, when the brigade arrived, had a firm hold in the shingles under the roofing iron, and a considerable amount of the latter had tobe removed before the fire was extinguished. Willing hands 'soon gathered and remove* a considerable quantity of furniture and contents belonging to the boarders. It is understood that in the rooms where the\ fire had a firm hold that very little was saved. The furniture was covered by insurance, but none of the boarders' effects were insured.

The following resolution, was passed at the last meeting of the Manawatu Employers' Association: —That whilst this meeting regrets the apparent loss incurred by Wellington Harbour Board owing to the recent strike, as shown by the chairman's figures, they are of opinion that loss to the Board would have been infinitely greater but for the combined efforts of employers and farmers to put down the disgraceful rioting which threatened to disorganise the whole trade of the Dominion. They are also of opinion that the Employers', Citizens' and Farmers' Committee did not receive that assistance from the chairman of the Harbour Board to which they were entitled by virtue of his position.

RAILWAY NOTICE. Travellers to Wellington are notified that they have Time for Refreshmens at DUSIJ'IN'S, opposite southern end entrance to Railway Station, P.N. * 4 A. Bird is known by its tune, and a man by his reputation." J. Fitt,. Watchmaker, Jeweller and Optician,. Main street West, claims to have a reputation second to none for fulfilling all requirements. Call and inspect his large assortment of Engagement Rings, Clocks, etc. No trouble to show goods.—Advt.