New Zealand.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 15, 18 May 1915, Page 6

New Zealand.

( THE OBJECTIONABLE GERMAN. Per Press Association. Auckland, May 18. Before the Niagara left for Vancouver torday, the local' manager of the Union S.S. Company was presented by eighteen second-class passengers, with a letter protesting against a foreigner in their quarters being permitted to continue ~the voyage. It was alleged that the xnan objected to was a German, and that he had given utterance to highly oiyectionable opinions in regard to 1 the war and to .the sinking of the . Lusitania. Three police officers searched his cabin and baggage, and as, far as could he ascertained , they .:|,ound nothing of importance’.' The passenger came ashore with the police and remains under observation, while the Defence authorities were comurnni anted with. He did not however, continue the voyage, though he had booked from Sydney to Yanhrtuver. his wife also remaining behind. DEATH OF JUSTICE. CHAPMAN’S SON. . Wellington, May 18. Private advices received here today report the death of Lieutenant George Martin Chapman, son of His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman. He was killed in action in France.