Second Edition

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 April 1913, Page 3

Second Edition

TELEGRAMS. 1 [PJR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] THE PREMIER ENTERTAINED. HAW'ERA, This Day. The Premier was accorded a complimentary dinner at Hawera on (Saturday evening, being enthusiastically and cordially received. He is .visiting the Mouniahaki State .Farm to-day. EXCITING SCENES AT A EIRE. AUCKLAND, This Day. A two-etoried wooden building at the corner of Victoria and Federal streets, occupied by Miss Elizabeth Smith, as a boarding house, was discovered to be on fire early on Sunday morning. The fire brigade was promptly on the scone. A cry was raised that several poisons were at the upstair windows. Ladies wore quickly requisitioned, and six hoarders were brought safely to the street. It was reported that a man and a woman wore still in the building. The man was found on the upper floor, unconscious, overcome by the smoke, but he recovered soon after reaching safety. The woman was found in the staircase, which she had been descending when escape

was cut off by the fire. She collapsed on the landing, but was carried out and soon recovered. One man named Johnson had his hand badly cut when breaking a window. Fireman Bradley was overcome by the smoke and some difficulty was experienced in locating him, but finally lie was got out little the worse for his experience. The fire was extinguished in about ten minutos. There was little damage, as most of the furniture had been removed the previous dav. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Adeline Edith Coom'bes, aged about 'Jo, residing at Papanui. was killed by a fall from a tram last night. When approaching Sawyer's Arms road stopping place she evidently thought the car stopped, and she jumped off. She fell on her head, with fatal results. BURNED TO DEATH. FEILDING, Tin's Day: Some boys out shooting in the Carnarvon district saw a .fire in the distance at three o'clock on Sunday morning. In the afternoon, when passing the vicinity, they made an inspection nnd found n caravan on wheels had been destroyed. ,On examining the remains one boy (W. Holman) was horrified to find the charred remains of a man lying across a stretcher. The man had evidently been suffocated whilst asleep. The police are investigate ing, but the body has not yet been identified.

Later. Tho man wi.t.se charred body was found yesterday has been identified as 3lr Marshall, who was engaged on a road-metalling contract.

Mr F. Pirani, chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, has received tho following telegram from Rnurimu : "Snow here to-day, school children nearly frozen." Tho explanation is that tho Education Department persistently refused to accede to the request of the board to provide a suitable building, but compels the children to meet in a hall built by the Public Works Department and totally unsuitable as a school.

DIED FROM EXPOSURE. NAPIER, This Day. John Peter Lannigan, a singlo man -aged 26, died last night on tho Peta no road. He had boon out all day in a motor boat, which broko down on its return, and a high wind drovo tho launch up tho inner harbour, where it went ashore, but Lannigan attempted to. keep it floating. An hour later lie showed signs of collapse, and his mates carried bim to tho shore, but ho died before medical assistance coul<l he obtained. Tho night was wild, cold and wet, and it is thought death resulted from heart failure, brought about by exposure.