DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 50, 28 February 1913, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

A MISSING SCOW SAFE. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, February 27. Word has been received hero that the scow Magic, concerning the safety of which some anxiety has been felt, is loading timber at North-West Bay, Pelorous Sound, for Wellington. There is no telegraphic r ominunication with j North-West Bay, this accounting for the non-receipt ol news of the vessel. ' ; \ • ■ '■ COMPENSATION CASE. Invercargill, February 27. The Supreme Court has been engaged for two days in hearing the case of Taylor v. Campbell Bros., involving a claim for £SOO damages for the death of plaintiff’s son, who was employed by the defendants at Wyndham. The defendant had sent the boy j with a horse and dray to cart a can of I water from the Mataura river. The I boy got into difficulties, and. the result was that he was drowned and the horse and dray washed down the stream. Plaintiff alleged that defendant had acted neligently in sending the boy to perform such work, in view of the dangerous condition of the stream. The defence was that there had been no negligence, and that the occurrence was an accident which - could not have been foreseen by an ordinary careful man. The jury found for the defendants, with costs. EMPLOYERS’ FEDERATION. Wellington, February 27. At a meeting of the Advisory Board of the New Zealand Employers’ Fed- ' ©ration very great pleasure was exf'pressed at the response to a circular asking for subscriptions to the organingising of the defence fund scheme of the Federation. It was decided to recommend the appointment of three prominent Wellington business men to assist in the administration of the fund. The Federation is circularising employers, drawing attention to the ,Unity proposals of Labor, empbasisihg that the scheme is intensely socialistic, and, if accepted, will represent the greatest industrial menace to the development of trade and industry that New Zealand has ever seen. Employers are urged to support the defer.;? fund.