THE WAIRARAPA ENQUIRY.
The third officer, in his evidence, said : Between 11 and 12 o’clock he went to the captain aud told him the ship was logging 14 knots. Captain said it was ridiculous—she could not be doing it. Provisions of article 12 of regulations were not complied with, neither was article 13 re moderation of speed in fog. When second officer relieved witness, yt mindight, be remarked in presence of captain, we must be near Hen and Chickens. Captain replied, * What nonsense.’ A young man named Black (of Wellington), one of the Wairarapa survivors, says of the washing away of the bridge:—When the wreckage finally washed over, there only remained on what was left of the bridge the captain and a young lady, a saloon passenger (this, it is understood, was Miss Knight). The captain was standing by her and speaking to her, the waves from time to time coming over the two, but it might have been, Black thinks, a quarter of an hour after the wrecking of the starboard end that the captain walked two or three yards from the lady, climbed on to the port rail of the bridge, and plunged head first into the sea. A few minutes later the lady fell from the bridge and was washed away, leaving what bad proved so delusive a haven of refuge without an occupant. Black saw all this from a distance of nine or ten feet from the chief actors in it.
AUCKLAND, Monday Wairarapa enquiry resumed this morning. J. Pike, saloon passenger, said captain was quite sober and appeared to be carefully attending to his duties. He said chief officer seemed to show utter indifference whilst they (?). Frank Varley said officers appeared to him to have done very little. C. Chapman, passenger, said chief officer superintended getting ropes ashore and assisted second officer in trying to get buoy ashore. DUNEDIN, Nov 12
Union Company replaces Wairarapa by Monowai, which will be withdrawn from San Francisco service, she being replaced therein by Arawa, latter takes up running on 26th inst.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 790, 13 November 1894, Page 6
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343THE WAIRARAPA ENQUIRY. Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 790, 13 November 1894, Page 6
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