DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 73, 29 March 1915, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

COMMERCE WITH JAPAN.

Per Press Association

Wellintgon, Inarch 28

As the result of commercial negotiations it is understood that there i$ a probability of a new direct line of steamships being established between Japanese ports and New Zealand in the near future. It is understood that the routes tentatively decided upon include calls at Wellington, Auckland, New Caledonia and a Philippines port. The managing agents in Australasia for the Nippon Yuseu Kaisha (Messrs Burns, Philip and Co.) have registered their company in New Zealand, and intend opening; their own offices in the business centres ol the Dominion.

BARQUE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

Auckland, March 28

The Norwegian barque Cis, 1554 tons, from New Caledonia to Glasgow, with nickel ore, put into Auckland yesterday for repairs. On March 20, j when a hundred miles from the North Cape, and in almost dead calm, she was struck by lightning, which brought the main top-mast, top-gallant-mast, and mi/./.en-top-rnast, with yards and stffs. crashing on to the port rail. No one was .injured, and the crew of fifteen, after some hours’ strenuous woik, cleared away the wreckage and set a course for Auckland,