ALLEGED SLANDER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15420, 4 April 1912, Page 4

ALLEGED SLANDER.

ACTION AGAINST MR MASSET. (I'ku United I'iikss Association.) ' NAPIER, April 3. Mr J. rayne. M.J\, has instructed Messrs Dolau ar.d Ferguson to iestio a writ against Mr W. F. Maseey, Leader of the Opposition, for alleged slander. Damages aro laid at £3000. ACCIDENTS AND NATALITIES (I'eu United Phess Association.) AUCKLAND, April 3. Tho adjourned uujuiry whs continued today into tlio eireuniMuneea surrounding tlie death of Ueorgo Tnylor, eiiffinu-itrivor ill ttie employ ot the Takupuna Tramway company, which incurred though tho duoouicd being crushed bctweon tho bulk-re of a car and an engine on March 2b. A verdict of accidental dealli was returned, no blame beiny utuichcd to anybody. DANNEVIIUuv, April 3. A motor cur accident occurred at Wimbledon lust evening. A ear containing Air J. Franklin and Dr and Mrs Jxoper, in trying to avoid a horse, cajisiMit over a IxinU. Mr h'rauklin eeoaped titihttn.. Dr Lceper Miifcrcd from a dislettited jaw and biuil.v-cut face; Mrs Iyeoper Mist-aineu a hurl a-aouiui-r, and is also fullering from shock. Dr Loei>er rccmuy arrived from Homo to practiso in tho llorbertville district.

WELLINGTON, April 3._ Victor Malison, aged 23, was ba<r.y crushed about tho nips through being caught between s. crane and a truck on tho Glasgow wharf to-night. Ho was removed to liie hospital. Nal Berry, aged 23, whilo working on the sito of ilis'-Majest/'s Theatre preparing for tin.' new building, was struck by_a lulling gutter. Onu arm was so liadly injured that ampliation bL'low tlio cllww was lounit nuccjiary.

.\» accident, which narrowly iniu-cd being a fatality, occurred in Princes street about 1.30 p.m. yesterday. Mr Malcolm Kcllati, aged 7b years, was in the act of crossing over from Dowiiny street whilst a tramcar was advancing slov.iv up tho liill._ On seeing tho car approacning him, -Mr Kclliui i.p|Kiioiiily got confused, stopped lor a moment, and then walked in ltont of tho car, wliicli knocked luttt down. Ho was removed in a cab to tho Hospital, where it k found that his thigh was broken, and ho was otherwise bruited about his body. Whilst -waiting for a I nun at tho corner of Princes and 1 tat tray streets about lioon on Tuesday Mn> Mary Campbell Was knocked over by a cyclist. Mrs Campbell was accompanied by her married daughter, and as they stepped oIF the footpath tho cyclist came riding past .slowly, mid although ho tried to avoid a collision tho impact was sulliciently severe to knock the lady olt her feel rather heavily. The cyclist (whoso name tho police have so far boon unablo to ascertain) promptly offered li assistance, but oil being told that Mrs Campbell was not severely hurt ho rodo away. It turned out later that the lady liad received a severe shock to her nervous system and had to bo taken to her homo in Gcorgo street, where she was attended to by Ur North. Sho is milking satisfactory progress. It is said that the cyclist Wsi9 on his right sido of the street at the time of tho accident, which is stilted to have been umiYoidnblo under tlio eircum.'Unices,