THE TREASURE QUEST.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1473, 22 June 1912, Page 6

THE TREASURE QUEST.

Al' 1' AIIIS OF S,,S. WAIKOA WOUND UI

Telegraph.—Press ■' Asscciatlcn.T ' ■ Dunedin, Jnno 21. .

Yesterday' the officers and crew of the. treasure.-, steamer Wairoa were paid off by.Messrs. Stevenson and Cook. .This afteiv -noon' application was made in (he Admiralty Division of t'lio Supreme Court, ■by Mr. „W.- C. Macgregor, acting for Stevenson and Cook, Stevenson and Cook had .initialed an action for the cost of repairs, and necessaries. Then E. C. May applied'' for leave to intervene, and also applied'. that the suit bo set aside. He now abait-.' ,'doned those proceedings, so that the only; .matter before Mr, Justice Williams v.is in.;- motion for the sale of the ship. ■ ,?i Ml-.-. Macgregor mentioned ' 'hat 1 the J claims' were: Stevenson and Cook, nearly-; ■'.CSOO wages (which they had advanced);, 'and nearly <£400 on a mortgage of ,£500.1 The first claim would bo wage;-:, thenmortgage, and, if there was enough' left,; Stevenson and Cook would get paid. . His Honour made an order that Steven-;, son and Cook bo at liberty to sell on, the consent of the re.qistered owner (Mr.-' .1). Anderson)-being obtained and filed ins court. Mr. May is on his way to America.", with the expressed intention of bringing out another boat fully equipped to proso>; -cute tho■ quest. "■