SUPREME COURT.
AUCKLAND SITTINGS
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 7. Tho re-hearing of the action against the Union Steamship Company by the Northern Coal Company for £1946 6s 2d. damages as the. result of a collision in the. Auckland, Harbour on the night of March 10th last between-the defendant Company's steamer Wairuna, of 4000 tons gross registrar,, and plaintiffs' 80 ton ketch Mocnah, was opened before Mr Justice Edwards and a special jury this morning. The claim is that tho accident which resulted in the sinking of the Moonah was occasioned through the negligence and improper navigation on the part of the defendant Company's servants. Defendants, on their part, denied the allegation and submitted that" the cause of the accident was the negligence and carclessnes«? of the plaintiff's servants.
Tho case h&s not concluded
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 8 December 1908, Page 5
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134SUPREME COURT. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 8 December 1908, Page 5
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