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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1726, 29 March 1905, Page 60

At the inquest concerning the recent fatal collision in Auckland between a ’bus and tram-car, the jury returned, the following verdict: —“Mrs Foster met her death through injuries received in a collision between the tram and ’bus, the former going at such a. rate of speed that the motorman was unable to stop the car in time to avert the accident. Tlie ’bus driver should have taken more precaution before crossing the line.” Riders were added to the effect that the by-laws relating to vehicular traffic should be enforced on trams; that niotormen should pass an examination other than that by the company’s officers; that someone be appointed by the Council to see that the speed will not endanger the lives of the public; that a Royal Commission be set up to inquire into the entire working of the tramway system.

The Johannesburg correspondent of the “Otago Daily Times,” writing on February 13th, stated that Miss Gertie Campion was progressing so well towards convalescence that if she improved as she had been doing she would take ship, with her sister (Miss Kit tie), for her home in Melbourne this month •