MAKING PORT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1839, 27 August 1913, Page 8

MAKING PORT.

SHIP'S COMPANY REACH TOWN. When tlio whole of the. officers and crew had come ashore safely, there was a general muster round tlio provisions, and justice was done to tlio supplies which had been sent out by motor-car and pack horse. The meal being finished, preparations wore mado for tlio journey to port. The chief officor (Mr. Maurice) .was left to stand by tlio ship and tlio others set out at about 4.30 p.m. oil tlio tedious walk to Rona Day. All hands were tired after their trying experience, and it took them a long time to reach , tlip ' road, where motor-cars wero awaitirig thorn. Rona Bay Wharf was readied at 7.30 p.m., and very' soon tlio ferry steamer Cobar was conveying tlio shipwrecked maimers across the water to p.m. they had mado port—24 hours overdue. , r . . , Mr. W. E. Cocks, of the Missions to Seamen, who bad been to the sceno of tlio wreck looking after tlio men, then led them off to get a meal. Tlio bulk of the ship's company (about 23) were accommodated for the night at loung s Private Hotel, and fourteen more wero spread over Jew's Private Hotel, tlio Queen's Privato Hotel, and Wliito Hall. Captain Caunco and the officers and engineers first visited tlio ofheo of tlio ship's agents, and afterwards put up at the Commercial Hotel. Asked if he would mako a statement,' in connection with tlio wreck, Captain Caunco stated briefly that he. did not wish to do so until the inquiry camo on. The chief engineer (Mr. Roberts) was questioned as to what timo tlio engines stopped on Monday might. Ho had no objection to answering tlio question, personally, lio said, but anything of the kind must como from tlio captain. Captain Caunco was again appealed to but lio replied that ho would sooner say nothing at all until tlio inquiry— nothing about; tlio ship.