SUPREME COURT.
AUCKLAND SITTINGS
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, September 7. At tho Supreme Court Judge Edwards and a s-eeial jury tcok evidence in a claim for £1946 damages, brought by the Northern Coal Company agiinst the Union Steamship Company in connection with the collision in Auckland Harbour on March 10th between the steamer Wairuna and the ketch Moon:ah.
Tho statement of claim alleged that Hie Wairuna was negligently and improperly navigated, and collided with the ketch while the latter was sailing up the. harbour. The defence is a denial of the allgations in respaet to the navigation of the steamer, and the assertion that the collision was caused by the negligence and improper navigation of plaintiff's servants in having failed to observe the collision regulations of the Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1903.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 8 September 1908, Page 8
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132SUPREME COURT. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 8 September 1908, Page 8
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