Telegrams.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3880, 30 May 1906, Page 2

Telegrams.

Napier, May 29. The Napier Fish Supply Company has ordered from England a large deep-sea steaia trawler for the purpose of thoroughly testing the unfished grounds on the New Zealand coasts. The vessel will be of the latest type used in the North Sea fisheries, and fitted with ample refrigeratiug machinery. Mr Niven, the company's manager, proceeds to England almost immediately in connection with the project. Auckland, May 29.

A settler named Mehaffy, of New Plymouth, sustained serious injuries as the result of being knocked down by a tram-car in Symonds street to-day. He got off an up car and immediately started across the road to a neighbouring hotel carrying a portmanteau. He walked straight in front of a down car, which knocked him to the side of the road. Mehaffy sustained a fracture of both legs below the knee, and| a compound fracture of the left arm. He lies in a serious condition in the hospital.