DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 77, 27 March 1912, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

.(Per Press Association.) l)*r • V * Napier, March 27. Good progress is being made with the preliminaries for the first section of the’ 1 TOast Coast railway, and when the 'Contract for the supply of rails and sleepers is let everything .will lie in vead'fness to push right ahead. It is no\v'*'oiglit months since the last hnnki'fitjtcy in Napier and district, which includes all the towns from Wairoa to Waipukuran. * Dunedin, March 27. Charles Reid, son~o7 Donald Reid, died this morning. Deceased met with a motor accident a fortnight ago, hut had seemingly recovered. Death is understood to he due to a clot of bloml' 'on the brain, the outcome of the accident! 7 " Hastings, March 27. A five-roomed .house in Lowell Str-mt/jpwned by J. G. Hill, and occupied by'Gavin Allan, union secretary, was destroyed by fire at 9.35 last evening. trying to the absence of a water mipifiyv.thc fire brigade was unable to render'! assistance, and everything was lost. Allan’s sons, aged 5 and 8 years, were tpo only occupants of the house at the time of the outbreak, and f had a uanvjjv escape. A man passing along an Adjacent road hoard the screams of the.jjdiildren, and running to the burning, building, was just in time to effectt.tjieir rescue. Allan, sen., was attending a N.Z. Labour party, and bis wifp was away nursing in the country;. There is £-10 insurance on

ti'-'' furniture in the South British. A iuTryGr. also existing on the house, but no particulars arc .available.