INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13373, 6 May 1914, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, thin day. Stock Exchange sales: Talisman 36s 6d; Waihi, 435, 42s 6d ; New Zeaiand Insurance, £56 3s 6d. Harold Nelson, arrested on a charge that he deserted from the steamer Hollington, was steward on the vessel. He asserts that the Greek crew had told him he could have his choice when again on the high, seas between knifing and being throvyn. overboard. He was, he states, physically fit when lie left Newport on New Year's Day; to-day he^was just a. bundle of nerves. It had been a comxqpn sight td see foreigners among the crew using their knives and fighting with their teeth. On arrival at Auckland he had ,to make up the manifest. He knew tne Greeks, had quantities of tobacco, and it was his duty, to inform the Customs officers that ..they refused to, account for. The crew thereupon swore that would be the end of him. They Tushed his cabin. When he bolted the door, they smashed the porthole, and he was lucky to escape with his life. In Court to-day thejpolice said the charge of desertion would not be proceeded with, nor would Nelson be required to join the ship, provided he paid costs, £2 10s. Tliis he agreed to, and was discharged, i NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. The Boroug-h Councillors attended the public hospital this morning to witness the declaration of the new Mayor, Mr J. E. Wilson, who is an inmate with typhoid fever m a mild form. Councillor Clarke is deputy-mayor during Mr Wilson's illness. • ; WELLINGTON, this day. Seven cases of measles are reported on board the Ruahine, which arrived from England to-day. Seven patients and eight contacts nave been isolated. The vessel has n6t been quarantined. This morning, upon. the motion of toe Canterbury District r Law Society, the Court of Appeal mado absolute an order to strike Walter Shaw, of Timaru, off the rolls of barristers and solicitors of the Supreme Court of. New Zealand.