ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 279, 18 August 1908, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(BY TELEGRAPH—rEESS ASSOCIATION.)

■ ——+— — TRAM PASSENGER KILLED. Auckland, August 17. "While endeavouring to alight from a swiftly moving tramcar in Upper Symonds Street last evening, a young woman, Miss Edith Alice Whitehead, aged about twenty-two years, whose parents reside at Litchfield Street, Ponsonby> fell and sustained such severo injuries to her head that she died within four hours after the accident. , FATALITY AT WAIKAIA. Core, August 17. v A man named Ellis burst a blood vessel at Waikaia railway works this morning. He was going to work when it occurred.' The unfortunate man never recovered. An inquest wiil be held. STRUCK BY A TRAM CAB. Auckland, August 17. A middle-aged man named Lawrence Reistrerc, a resident of Gundry Street, was crossing Queen Street near the foot of Wyndham Street a few minutes after 3 o'clock this afternoon, when he was struck by ad Onehunga .tj'amcar., Tho man had his umbrella up at tho time, and on that account no doufit could not sec the approaching car. The man received severe injuries.

; Apropos of the appointment of Mr. J. D. Loucli, Assoc. M.lnst. C.E., as district engineer for Wellington, to relieve the Government Architect of provincial work, "Reader" asked yesterday in our correspondent columns why an engineer should be appointed 'to an architect's position. The Engineer-;in-Chicf of the Public Works Department, Mr. R. W. Holmos', M.lnst.C.E., suggested ,'sovoral .reasons when the question was put Whim. In the first place, he said that Mr'. Louch had served his time as an architect.. Further, ho stated that the Department had a large amount of engineering work' in tho city and province which required supervision, and the Department was merely reviving, on this account, an office which had previously > .been abolished when there was not much engineering work in progress. It was quite \vrong to say that tho. Department's engineers were mostly surveyors. They vrero specially educated as engineers, they had to pass a very high-grade Civil Service examination, and they obtained experience of engineering, surveys for public works, and construction of public works,. including rail■wavs, roads and bridges, harbour wotks, \vatcr-raco works and all tho buildings incidental to railway, construction. Iho only thing tlioy lackcd was knowledge of tho ornaiuental part of building, and that was loft ;to the architect to design.

! A negro 'fireman was, it is rumoured, killed on board one of the American- warships lying in Auckland Harbour. Nobody would desire that this Dominion should bo put to tho ! expense and trouble of. his supposed assailant's trial, but the matter has suggested to many people an interesting question in international law. Might tho hssailanfr have been 1 held''responsible to New Zealand justice? Since tlio vessel was a warship, there would appear to be little doubt about the answer, oven though the crime occurred within the:-three miles limit of land which seme authorities set down as the ordinary boundary of a State's jurisdiction. Under tlio doctrine of ex-tcrritoriality ; a man-of-war is held to carry with her the jurisdiction of the country to which she belongs; she is a floating. part of the State that sends her forth. Had" tho alleged crime been comniitlcd on shore, or had tlio ironclad been a private vessel, thcro might have-lio««n some qii.'s! ion 'whether, legally, New Zealand justice could not claim the victim, though as a matte: of international comitv it is usual to allow ■tlio visiting Power to deal with its offenders.

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