THE ROTOMAHANA ENQUIRY.
[by telegraph.] Dunedin, To-day. The Rotomahana enquiry commended before Mr Carew, E.M., and Captains Thomson and Scott, the assessors. Captain Carey, in his evidence, said the chart showed the flood stream set in to the'V. eastward, but his experience was that it : , was much influenced by the wind. Had there been a light on Waipapa point the mishap could not have happened. Ha could only account for it by there being some unusually strong current. On hia arrival at the Bluff he found that for. three days before there had been a. southerly gale. He expected to pick np the Dog Island light before four o’clock, and he found the ship more to the south. From this he must have been set threw miles out of his course. In his opinion the accident was due to the vessel being set out of her course by the current. He w had no reason to believe the chart to bq f incorrect, although it is said, there are rocks outside those shown on 'th* chart.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1017, 9 August 1883, Page 2
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176THE ROTOMAHANA ENQUIRY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1017, 9 August 1883, Page 2
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