LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14840, 18 February 1919, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

(Per Press Association,) ' .•■ , DUNEDIN, last night. As a result of the conference with tlie Seamen's Uniort> the Urtion. Company has agreed to improved accommodation for seamen on about seventeen additional vessels. The company- has ftlfio agreed to incorporate a clause m seamen s articles pi-oyidiiu* that seamen iuvalided on shore m New. Zealand through illness or accident contracted while m the service of the ship be granted % the. benefits of section six of the Shipping and Seamen's Act. Percy Nicholhs, thirteen years of age, the only son of Jesse Nicholls. Milton,! Was drowned this evening while swim--ming m a deep pool. He got into difficulties, and a companion . who 1 went ,tqi b» assistance narrowly escaped being flagged 1 down by Nioholls, whose body j was recovered twenty. minutes later MABTON, last night. James Andrews, married, 60 years of age, engine-driver, of Levin, was accidentally killed on a farm near Bulls on Sunday afternoon. He was driving a traction engine, and when, he turned was caught between the road wheel and the fly wheel, smashing m his right knee and dislocating his neck. Death was instantaneous. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. IftVERCABGILI^ last night. The police received word that John Buchanan, aged 36, was found dead outside his hut at H&wea Flat on Saturday evening. No inquest is considered necessary. TAUMARUNUT, laul night. At Matawiuua, near Tuumarunui, on Sunday, a- man, George Scrimshaw, was riding a- -hearse when it stumbled, and the rider was thrown over tho horse's head and rendered unconscious. He ■was taken to the hospital, /but did not regain consciousness and succumbed to his injuries this, morning. He leaves a widow and one child. At the inquest, a verdict, was returned that deceased met his death as the result- of accidentally falling from a horse. WELLINGTON, last> night. Johannes Meertens, who pleaded guilty to a charge of carnal knowledge, came before Mr Justice Edwards today. Counsel submitted that the man had been sinned against rather than sinning. His Honor said -that the facts indicated that, the, 'girl concerned, though under sixteen was ah immoral character. However, the. prisoner knew he was committing a breach of the law, and would be sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.. Base Records advices state that the returning soldiers who came to Australia m the Nestor will reach Auckland An the Mamari on Wednesday evenTh© Acting Prime. Minister announces that the Government has .been compelled by the demands of the seamen to abandon the proposal to use the Government steamer Tutanekai for mine-sweeping. This decision has been reached after prolonged negotiations. The special inquiry cbndsuoted by the Board of Trade with regard! to coal production and prices is^ concluded, and the board is now engaged m analysing the evidence. .The report will bo of an exhaustive nature, and its preparation probably will occupy som<> weeks. \