Second Edition TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 January 1915, Page 3

Second Edition TELEGRAMS

[per press association.] A MOTOR, ACCIDENT. Waipawa, This Day. Whilst travelling from .Napier to Feilding yesterday a. motor car. containing four occupants—\V. R. Clark (Keikling), T. P. Clark (Napior), and two ladies—was overturned at a bend of the Hatiniui road. The first-named was pinned underneath the car and killed. The other occupants eneaped with bruises. The accident is attributed to defect in the steering gear. THE VICTORIA'S CAPTAIN FINED.

Dvniedin, This Day. At tlie S.M. Court this morning, .Alfred John Croft, master of Victoria, was fined £2'And costs for breach of the Shipping and Seaman's Act. 1908, he having carried a seaman on- board without having entered into agreement ■with him in accordance with the Act. Defendant admitted , the offence under mitigating oir.cuinlstancsQs. Ho Htated that arrangements had been made for tho seaman to sign on at the Company's office, but the man failed to put in an appearance, and when he came aboard it was .just on sailing time. Later, when asked to sign the article he refused. ■ Mr Burton, S.M.. commented! that 't was _generally admitted that when i. seaman did not sign on ashore he won Id-.refuse to do so later.