WELLINGTON TRAM ACCIDENT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10965, 7 May 1907, Page 2

WELLINGTON TRAM ACCIDENT.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The inquest on the victim of the Brooklyn tramway fatality was continued today. Tlie city solicitor intimated that tests conducted by the Public Works Department liad not yt-t been completed. Stuart Riclrardson, city electrical engineer, described the movements of the car which met with the accident. He was not prepared to give opinions about the cause of i tiie car 1 tinning away at present. He 'wished to thoroughly examine the car, and hear the principal witnesses. The enquiry is proceeding. b2:>ig3 Krneot James, traffic superintendent, sard he consideredHhat cars of the type in question were safer for taking curves thiln the smaller car. He had formed no; theory a lout the cause,, of the accident. He did not think the signal lights had any bearing on the accident. Rea, the motorman, might have been on duty 9 hours with two spells. The speed limit on the Brooklyn line was 7A ttiileo an hour. ;,If a motorman was late he was asked for : an explanation, but. was not fined. Reji was running a speciul car which had to fit in witli ordinary curs. Reliable njen were picked for this special, service. He believed Rea was a cool, steady man. . Richard Elliott, a passenger by. the car, said he sajiv the motorman putting on. tlie hand brak^, but did not know about the other brakes. Witnera knew some timebefore tlie accident that the car was beyond control. He believed that from the commencement of the journey the motorman handled the brakes properly. The enquiry was adjourned for lunch/ ___„__^ JSX- It SON. this day. -'^ie-fun^raTor&fe lute Mrs Bell, victlfir~of the WMiihgton thunway fatality; took Slace at Richmond • .yesterday. .... Threefethodist clergymen assisted, and there was a record attendance of representatives' of all parts of the district, including Murchison and Upper Buller. Some must have travelled two days jn order to show tlie great inspect felt for tlie family. 'The late Mrs JBell was a s;ster of Mr Sheut, the new Mayor qf Richmond. Mr Bell's condition |s evoking anxious 1 enquiry from ( , Murchisonl where he i$ a very popular ' and useful 'resident.