THE WAIRARAPA COLLISION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 79, 1 March 1884, Page 2

THE WAIRARAPA COLLISION.

(BY TELEGRAPH.)/ (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.*) '-' Dune'di*, February "28. 1 The inquiry re the Wairarapa colli-; sion was continued- to-day, when the jJrindpU.l witness ' was Mr A. % j_H"ill; Jack, manager of the National insur-j anlcel iCompany, who was a passenger, He} .said, the Wau'fl.vap, a . .{o be going at qrdiuaiy full speed, and he' continued — M T was sitting m the! music* room, when a-talking-^arid shout-; ing of passengerTToTiicteck caused me to sLef) Outside, i when I discovered- 'a steamer neai-ly abreast of us, on th,e : port side, and the passengers, qu' both stean^erft'were very mucji excited. The stoamers were near enough for the passengers of each' v<?'aael r to liear-.what wasi said. The •steamers 'approached one another several times quite closely, and F noticed that flames were coming-out of the fnnnel of i-the Adelaide. I judged by the smoke that our steamer; was also coaling up, but there was. no,j flame frqm the funnel, aud whenthej collisfion took placfer I' at first there hacf been an -explosion. / X heard nothing about a race-b,eiqg intended to itako-plao'e 'between' the steamersjV' a; ! The Oollectox, of j Customs aaid the; evidence would be -forwarded to the} ;.Marine' 'Department at WelliiigtQn.J .Captain Ghattield remarked that he did iiiQt.see: the object of the inquiry, as the, .matter, would have to be gone into at Melbourne. Captain Ti-om.squ thenj pointed out t^atthe law required .that . a prelimihary inquiry should taktj .plaoe i at tlia first port jat whioh a vessel arrived affc«r an accident. >;■-: ; : !