MISCELLANEOUS

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11863, 18 February 1907, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS

Auckland, Feb 16 Messrs 8011, Gully and Myers Have issued; a writ for £15,000 or behalf of the Shaw, Saville and ■Mbion Company against the AuckJand Harbour Board in connection with the Calliope dock accident. Writs nre also being issued on behalf of the men injured and their families. _ The Nautical Court found that the wreck of the steamer Awarua was not due to unskilful or negligent navigation on the part of the master, or of the seaman who was at the wheel The attention of the Minister of Marine was drawn wrthe fact that the master, when the vessel struck, in accordance with the terms of his employment, had surrendered the command to the seaman who vas at the wheel on the bridge steering thj£ vessel' to an l anchorage Tne scow Bravo, bound from Kai para to Gisborne/ fran ashore near Cape Maria on Thursday The crew were landed safely, and are making for Farengarenga. The skipper is very ill. , . . , . Ghrles Haarwood, injured in a 3afrmill accident at Te Araro. died from shock and loss of blood

bishop Stubbs, of Truro, besides] being a prolific writer, has, amougst j bis other hobbies, the collecting of historical, relics, and amongst his much prized treasures is an embroidered cope, given by Queen J^hilippa to Prior John C ran den, of Ely — that is to say, the cope is five centuries old. It is stated that General Booth contemplates an appeal to the public for one million pounds sterling to aid in carrying out what he believes will be the mostgigantip and culminating work of his life, viz, the populating of Rhodesia.

A New Zealander, writing, fromv i America says thift country is ia mass i of corruption, afld money is the only law, adding that the amount of ' 'steal? which went on in connection with the San Francisco -relief .funds was something terrible. - Constantinople seems now of opinion thafc the noisy but comparatively harmless bomb throwing which went on the other day around the carriage. -of the Chief of the Secret Police was. as a matter of fact, "arranged" by that astute officer in order to procure for himself, not only the compassionate regard of his royal master, but a substantial increase \n his salary.