TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[by telegraph—per press association]

A- SEAMAN’S CLAIM. WELLINGTON, March 31. A claim for a weekly payment of £2 , 6s 4d, as from August 25, 1921, to . the date of the hearing and for a i reasonable lump sum in the way of i future weekly payments, was made in the Arbitration Court by Henry Hyde, of Wellington, against the Blackball Coal Company, Limited I Plaintiff alleged that on August 15, 192.1, while he wa s employed on the defendant company’s steamship Ngahere then in port at Timarti, he suffered heart strain through holding up J a hatch which was falling into the | bold. He did not realise at the time that lie was seriously injured and con. i tinned his employment, -but on August , 25, 1921, he was unable to continue--1 at his work. He had been totally disabled from that date. The company had made payments to liim under the , Shipping and Seamen Act, but bis coni' dit-ion entitled him to further compen- ! sation. j The defendant company adfmitted ! that, on August 15, 1921, 'plaintiff was in its employ; but it- denied that any J accident occurred to him while he was in such employ. Mr O’Regan produced as a witness the man who was said to have thrown j tin' hatch cover which plaintiff endeaj von red to prevent from falling. Wit—- ! ness was asked wliethed plaintiff showjed that he was hurt. “Well he called j nic a very nasty name,” was the rei ply. Council did not trouble to ascer- ! tain more particularly what the plnin- | tiff said. j The case was adjourned.

WATERSIDE LABOUR

AUCKLAND, April 3

No casual waterside inhour was employed on the steamer Manuka alter 5 p.m. on Saturday. The gangs employed knocked off at that time, and the loading of Wirth’s Circus was carried out by the Union Company’s permanent stevedore foremen, assisted by the company's wharf clerical staff and a number of circus hands. The action of the waterside workers in stopping work at five o’clock was not due to any trouble, but on account of the unwritten rule that no work is to lie done after 5 p.m. on Saturdays. Their action did not seriously delay the vessel, which sailed at 11.30 p.m. Had the walersiders worked after live o’clock, they would have received payment of 3s I Id per hour.

HIT BY TRAIN. HAMILTON, April 3

William Stubbs aged forty-nine, was run into by at train on Saturday night and thrown fifteen feet. When picked up he was found to be suffering from serious injuries including a broken arm. and was hospitalled.

HOTEL BURNED

ONE MAN KILLED

HAMILTON. April 3

Hamilton Hotel, (owner L. D. Nathan, and licensee, John McKenzie), was almost totally destroyed by fire at •four o’clock this morning. The flames had a good hold when discovered and the building was soon a seething mass of flames. The occupants narrowly escaped in their night clothes, very little being saved. The body of a man was discovered in the debris, and so far has been unidentified, the hotel register having been destroyed. One maid is said to be missing. A boarder named Moore Jones, was severely burned n,nd sent to hospital, and is not expected to recover. Much damage was done to buildings on the opposite side of the street.