DUCHESS-COBAR COLLISION.
MAGISTERIAL ENQUIRY TO BE HELD. The Marine Department has to-day ordered a magisterial enquiry to be held into the circumstances of the collision between the feny steamers Cobar and Duchess off Point Jerningham on Wednesday evening. The Collector of Customs (Mr. Nixon) will conduct the enquiry. The date is not yet fixed, nor has the appointment of nautical assessors been made. To-day the steamer Pilot is pumping out the Cobar, where she lies stranded off Thorndon Esplanade. The examination made of the Cobar revealed the fact that several timbers in the stern had been started, thus causing the inrush <>f water. In all probability the Cobar will be towed to the Patent Slip for repairs. A statement by a- passenger thai the captain of tho Admiral lives out of town was published last night. Captain Reid points out that this statement was based on a misapprehension, as he lives near the Basin Reserve. He wa?> advised at 8.30 that the Admiral would be reqiiired to take the Cobar's passengers to Day's Bay, and he lost no time in a^isting'to «et the members of the crew to the boat.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 76, 1 April 1910, Page 8
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190DUCHESS-COBAR COLLISION. Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 76, 1 April 1910, Page 8
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