The New Plymouth' Harbour Board to be Sued.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8235, 7 August 1888, Page 2

The New Plymouth' Harbour Board to be Sued.

UNION COMPANY CLAIM £30,000 FOR LOSS OF HA WE A. THE BOARD NOTIFIED OF THE OLAIM. Mr. Standish this (Tuesday) afternoon, on behalf of Mr Allan Holmes, of Dunedin, served the Harbour Board with a notice to the effect that the Union Company olaimed £30,000 for the loss of the s.s. Hawea at the harbour. To New Plymouth Harbour Board. The Union Steamship Co. of Now Zealand, late owners of the steamship Hawea, according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided give you notice that they will at or soon after the expiration of one calendar month from the time of your being served with this notice cause writ of summons to issue out of the Supreme Court of New Zealand against you at the suit of the said Company, for that you, the said Board, by your servants and agents did, on tbe 12th day of June, 1888, unskilfully and negligently conduot yourselves in and about tho conduot and management of the said harbour, and did, by your said servants and agent?, signal the steamor Hawea tbat sho might enter the New Plymouth harbour, while at tbe time you bo signalled, and while she was entering the said harbour, in compliance witb suoh signal, thero was not sufficient water to allow of the said Bteamship safely entering tbe said harbour, and it was then unsafe for such steamer to enter thb said narbour, and for that you did, by your servants and your agent, John Henry Holford, the harbourmaster at New Plyroduth, represent to the captain of tbe said steamship that there was, on the said 12th day of June, 1888, sufficient water in tbe said harbour for the safe conduot of, j tbe same steamship to the wharf at New Plymouth aforesaid, and that it was otherwise safe for the said steamsr then to enter the said harbour, and further for that you by your negligence failed to keep tha channel of tbe said harbour clear and navigable and free from obstructions and dangers, whereby an account of the various acts of negligence hereinbefore mentioned, or some of them, the said steamship while in the ordinary and usual course for entering the said harbor, and in tbe usual channel, struck the bottom of l\i& said harbor or an obstruction in the said channel, and was wrecked and destroyed, atid the said Company have sustained loss and damage thereby to the extent, in all o£ thirty thousand pounds, which sum the said Company claims. Tho solicitor of the said Company is Allan Holmes of Liverpool-street Dunedin, who is authorised to act on it'a behalf. Dated nt Dunedin this first day ot August, 1888. Allan Holmes, of: Liverpool-street, Dunedin, Solicitor for said Company. A copy of the notice has been sent to Wellington to Mr Samuel. The notice now lies in Mr Samuel's office here.