DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 74, 30 March 1915, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

THROUGH THE PANAMA CANAL.

Per Press Association,

Wellington, March 29

Consignees of cargo from New York by the Star, of India, which came via Panama, find that they cannot take delivery of goods for two or three weeks because the necessary documents are not yet to hand. An arrangement exists under which documents are forwarded from New York to London and thence to New Zealand. This system worked well enough when the tramp steamers followed the old routes, but now that they use the Panama Canal they reach New Zealand about a fortnight earlier than the papers) covering their cargoes. As a result merchants, in addition to the delay in obtaining delivery of the goods, have to pay additional storage charges.

A COMPENSATION CASE.

Wellington, March 29,

Judgment was delivered in thevArbitration Court to-day in the case in which Duilo Picchi, a Wellington fish cuter, claimed from the Hawke’s Bay Fisheries Co., Ltd., the sum of £230 10s as compensation for the loss of an eye while in the employ of the company. Plaintiffi\ alleged that while cutting and cleaning fish on November 16th septic matter flew into his eye, Setting up poisoning and eventually destroying the sight, and the Court took this View of the y matter and awarded compensation calculated in accordance with the second schedule of the Act, also half wages-for the period of incapacity, and the sum of £1 medical expenses, also £lO 10s costs and expenses. The total award included £l7 10s for ten weeks’ total disablement, and £212 for weekly payment of 17s 6d for remainder of the period of liability.

ESTATE PAYS 2d IN THE £. Timaru, March 29. 'At a meeting of the creditors of the estate of Walter Shaw, bankrupt solicitor, some tenders of small amounts for assets were . accepted and others were declined. The Deputy Official Assignee stated that the claims against the estate amounted to- £53,000, but had been cut down to £SOOO. or £6OOO. So far as he could see the estate would pay about twopence in the pound’, A creditor said that if they waited ton years for -the realisation they might get fourpence.