THE TREASURE SEEKERS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 306, 22 June 1912, Page 5

THE TREASURE SEEKERS

FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS. • By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Yesterday the officers and crew of the treasure steamer Wairoa were paid off by Messrs. Stevenson and Cook. This afternoon application was made in the Admiralty Division of the Supreme Court by Mr. W. C. McGregor, acting for Messrs. Stevenson and Cook. Stevenson and Cook had initiated an action for cost of repairs and necessaries. Then Mr. E. C. May applied for leave to intervene, and also applied that the suit be set aside. He now abandoned those proceedings, so that the only matter before Mr. Justice Williams was a motion for the sale of the ship. Mr. MacGregor mentioned that the claims were: Stevenson and Cook, nearly £500; wages (which they had advanced), nearly ,£400; and a mortgage of £SOO. The first claim would be wages, then the mortgage, and if there was enough left Stevenson and Cook would get paid. His Honor made an order that Stevenson and Cook be at liberty to sell on consent of the registered owner (Mr. D. Anderson) being obtained and filed in the Court. Mr. May is on lis way to America with the expressed Intention of bringing out another boat, fully equipped, to prosecute the quest.