TO-DAY'S PAPER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 18 February 1911, Page 5

TO-DAY'S PAPER.

SOME LEADING FEATURES. LEADERS— , . / rage, Tho Home, Rule Debate 1 i .■ The High Commissionership 4SPECIAL ARTICLES— The Changing Scene 6 . The Political Outlook S Schools of Piny 10 1 GENERAL-, " Auckland Fira'Tragedy S Th« Christchurch Mystery G .'. Labour Movement. 9 * - Yorkshire Letter 14 ■ Teachers' Examinations 10 Westport Items ........ 10 • .'■Our .Mosquito Fleet 10 Masterton Notes ' 3 . Dominion Ironmasters 3 . Bush />nd Grass Fires. 4 Steamer's Stormy Voyago 4 The Coming Exhibition 8 . Australian' News ....;. IS Tho Waihi Mine 7 ' Lyall Bay 7 - Band Contest ...:.. 7 t Weekly Half-Holiday 7 . Tiro. 7 BOOKS AND AUTHORS D CABLEGRAMS • '.... 5 and t> COMMERCIAL ' 8 ENGLISH HAIL NEWS .. 3 ENTERTAINMENTS .....; 6 FARMING 8 LAW REPORTS 15 . LOCAL AND GENERAL i MILITARY NOTES 12 MUSIC 9 NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS G PERSONAL ITEMS 4 POULTRY INDUSTRY 14 PROVINCIAL. CENTRES 10 RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY 9 SHIPPING AND MAILS 7 THEATRE . .......:i...... 0 WOMAN'S WORLD U LETTERS TO THE EDITOR— ■f'.The.Hutt Road' .....v. fi. > A Correction 6 SPORTS- "' The Turf '..;..;....'....i........„i.... 13 Cricket 12 and 13 • Athletics 12 and 13 ■i'*,Rowing , 12 Lawn Tennis 12' and .13.. ...Swimming' .. 12 and 13 ........... 12 .' . .Bowls. .................... 13 v' Bnsing ~ .' 13 ;; Tlifle Shooting 13- , ; Football ; 13 . , ' To-day's'Regatta l .7 , ' 'The Fourth TeSt 6 • STEAMER RUNS AGROUND. , ■/h'.- .J ; . 'ACCIDENT TO KNIGHT OF THE . . .GARTER, , ' . ■(By Teleerapli.r-Pre«» l AssocUtl6n.l „ l ' , , ' Bluff, February 17, The. steamer Knight of thqT Garter, while entering the harbour at 7 o'clock this morning without a pilot, ran aground on a rock on tho port side of tho channel, about five cables eafct of tho'Bluff Wharf. The vessel is hard tind fast; but is: expected to float off pbo.ut,3 oVlocJc.'. .The. extent of tho dateage; is' not'known.exactly, but this rossel does not- seem to - be making water.. Tho spot.whero-tho Knight ol the Garter struck is' tho' samo' as. that touched by the Manuka-last yeaj. ■■ v/ k '..titter. ■

; The steamer Knifelit' of tho Garter .waj floatcd'off tho. reef/at. tho 1 mouth of tho . harbour on thoincoming tide at 12.30 p.m. She steamed slowly up the harbour and berthed,at tHo wharf at 1-30 p.m.' Tho expects to finish inspection 'of,.tho vessePs hull at mid- , 'day, to-morrow.' He inspbefod'tdr- thfeo Mrs'•,to4»jr > .a fl a Jpugd. .. ttho-,captain,. (Caplain ~r F jnnis),.,ihinks that'tho No. 3 hold tank is' picrced. After{ ih6p'cctipn,. the vessel,- proceeds Cnalmers t6bo'docked, and returns., to .Bluff.. to finish loading wool for London ' "A,' Cqurt of Inquiry, • will .sit to-morn)w.,>n'.;' ; i.O:--,:. ' ■ ' Th& steamer 'Knight; of the Garter i> chartered ;by the' New Zealand Ship- . ping? Company, - arid'arrived at Welling. . toir from Napier on Friday, - February •10, at 2.25 p.m.y to continue loading for Home. " She left Wellington again on Wednesday, February' 16, at 6.10 a.m. ■ for Bluff, whore she was to havo com- , pleted loading for London. ■ She is a steel,screw 6teamer.,of 4710. :i/tons, 456 ft.' j long, 5^.2ft.• beam, "'and 30.7 ft. deop, and was built to tho order • of the .Knight Steamship ■, Company, Ltd.,-Greenshields, by C. Connolf and Company,: Ltd.. in 1902. •'