THE TASMANIA WRECK.
MORE WITNESSES COMING UP,
The Government steamer Hinemoa, Captain Neale, left Gisborne at five o'clock last evening for Auckland with a number of additional witnesses, who are to give evidence at the Nautical Court of Inquiry into the wreck of the s.s. Tasmania at the Maliia. The steamer is expected to arrive here during the course of the night. The witnesses include Mr Armstrong, the Government Surveyor, who made an official survey of the scene of the wreck and the vicinity, and whose report will be read when the Nautical Court resumes next week. The chief feature of his report will be that no uncharted sunken rocks were found at the scene of the wreck. Mr W. H. Clayton, a passenger by the Tasmania, also comes up by the Hinemoa to give evidence as to the distance of the land from the steamer when she struck, and one or two natives from the Maliia Peninsula are on board, their evidence being desired by the Customs Department on the same question. The nautical inquiry will be resumed next Wednesday morning.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 210, 10 September 1897, Page 5
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182THE TASMANIA WRECK. Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 210, 10 September 1897, Page 5
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