NAUTICAL ENQUIRY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1431, 15 April 1905, Page 3

NAUTICAL ENQUIRY.

LOSS • O® 1 THE SCOW HOANGA.

(PuiT Press Association^ Dunedin, last night. enquiry was held to-day as E«iars,nce of the scow Hoanga, left IDiWedxn in beptembei last for He The vessel utas of 105 tons net register in i<lo4. Her registered owner f 9 J Ha-risonaf Aratapu." She brought to Dunedin 11 t,ooofc timber, and took Iwa? 20 tonV P-dnce. Her master wa g Edward Me »£° aal<J « wbo , beld “ master’s certificate.. she was known to have on board B. Hodder (mate). J. Me -Kelli and J. MeAlis. \cr (able seamen), and a cook whose name ; » unknown. The scow is suppoi >ed to have b ° e ° on October 17tb by tL te Tarawera between , Bear Island arid thO Kidnappers. The ' .weather then was fine, bn* .he.same evom Jl'iiDg a westerly gale With hard equalls was given !by Mr Chamberlain, Collector of Customs,, Captain « DeDOtv Harbormaster (who ■ thoOgn* ■ *““ ' vessel generally well found), and t Fleming, Marine Superintendent, auu Captain Land. The Collector of Customs reluctam ‘y questioned the last witness as to whethe* the captain whb temperate, and received a reply that ho might have drank the aliobtest now and again. The witness V thought McDonald, was half seas over v- when he left the wharf. The mate was a eood seaman and a trustworthy man. “ The Magistrate said the Court could - only come to the ccrvalusion that_the seow had been lost, but where, wheD,TJ)t how there was no evidence to show. •-