MARINE INQUIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 152, 1 July 1904, Page 3

MARINE INQUIRY.

WECK OF THE P. AND 0. AUSTRALIA,. \ MELBOURNE. June 30. it tho marine inquiry into the wfclc of the Australia, Captain Cole gao evidence that he saw nothing inlhe pilot's actions to cause any tvinjf. When the pilot put the to port as the red light bevisible ho saw ' Queenscliffe in line, and the leading; lights m I perfectly safe position. He to the starboard side to koo a look out, iu. case ships were -oiiag- down ( the south channel WHs looking through the tinoculai land on th& starboard side sudden came in view. He turned to gi» an order, but the vessel grounded ./ I*»econd mate said the pilot was perfjlly cool a«l collected twentyfive minutes after the disaster, but irhej he (witness) returned from luelsulifte three hours later his mauler was such as to lead him to the lelief that he was under the inluets of drink. Thj fourth officer testified that iherl ras no sign of liquor on the pilot] Thl Quartermaster deposed that he yceived four orders to port. Tneywere good orders properly made|