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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 91, 11 January 1919, Page 8

A married man named Charles Howard, aged 50 years, a market gardener, was driving a motor-car near Petono when he was thrown out, sustaining injury to his left shoulder. He was admitted to tho Wellington Hospital at 12.50 this morning. ■

Probably 110 0110 place in tho British Isles has been more before the public eye recently than Scapa or Scalpa Flow, in the Orkneys, whore tho British Grand Fleet has found a safo and splendid anchorage for four years, nnd where tlio German High Seas Fleet has just been interned. Yet iho Flow must have been known to shipmasters for ages. Harold Haavfager, tho Scandinavian jarl who sn.bduetl. the Orkney; in 875 A.D., must havo used it, being a mighty seaman.. In u<ia the islands were pledged to Scotland. Tho great harbour is fret|u6ntly mentioned by Scott in "The Pirates," whero it is called Scalpa Flaw, and from what is written thcro it is inferred that seamen used it for somo hundreds of years before that. Orcadians have become so accustomed to the sound of the ruilniiig S'ealpn waters that a story is tokl of a certain party on a visit to Edinburgh who loft tho bathroom taps running nil night to havo in their ears the best 6ubstituto for their beloved Scapa! .