THE KIA ORA.
TIIW INQI'IUV CONTIKVED. (Per Press Association). CilSIlOitNE, Jan. 8. The inquiry was resumed this afternoon, when the Collector of Customs stated that, he had disnothing among Uuckerid'ge's papers to throw any light on the voyage. There wu« no log or tli ; ury. Sowdon, further examined, said Huekoridge was sufieiing from snow blindness. The Muifgis'tiate asked ■if tlwi o hud I wen any weather to account fi*r snow blindness aim! witness said the hot sun alfocted his eyes in that way. This was called snow bl'imlri'.i.vfci. No other evidence was called, and the finding of the Court was delivered by the Magistrate, who stated : "'The story of li;« witness Sowden, to our miwl. is most extraordinary and unsatisfactory. As it is impossible to state thing further wu have no alternative 'but to lind in accordance with the evidence U»foro us, namely, that Horace Ihickeridg». ( died from the efl'eets of an injury 'n*vi\vJ by him caused : by his fo/IMjig ft*vjn the mu;ft the deck of the Ivia Ora, and that the body wiv.i buried at sea."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 7, 9 January 1904, Page 2
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177THE KIA ORA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 7, 9 January 1904, Page 2
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