SHIPPING TELEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1914, Page 7

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS

LINER REFLOATED. Received this, day at 12.35 p.m. LONDON, June 28.—The steamer Gothland (late Gothic] has been refloated. A HUGE LINER. BERLIN, June 27—The! Nord Deutscher Lloyd's 16-COO-ton steamer Zeppelin, advertised as the largest steamer to Australia, via Suez, makes her maiden trip in January, when the canal will be deepened to thirty feet. .. ; " ;-• : . STOKERS ON STRIKE,-,. MELBOURNE, This Day.—As a result of an altercation between, an intoxicated stoker and an officer of the steamer Kanowna, the stokers demanded that the officer be removed from the ship. The captain reufsed, and twenty-five stokers left the ship. All have been arrested. The steamer is delayed. A WHARF FATALITY TALLY CLERK KILLED. TIMARU, June 27.,' Archibald Campbell, the railway tally clerk crushed in the fall of a 4£-ton lift from the s.s. Waiwera on Thursday morning, died about midnight. , This morning an inquest was opened for the evidence of members of the crew. The accident was caused by a special fixing for the lift giving way. Anderson, lamptrimmer, Wills, boatswain, and Roberts, third officer, gave . evidence rergading the gear. Anderson, said to be a competent seaman, fixed it, using a new strop made of 3iin. Manila rope, which should bear four tons, and four plies were. used. They could not tell how or where the rope, broke.

The inquest was adjourned for further evidence till Monday. '■ The deceased was a native •of ' New South Wales, married, and with three young-children.. He was one- of two men who refused to fall in line with the strikers some time ago. He had been known as a cricketer and umpired in the New South Wales v: South Canterbury match at Temuka. last season.