FORREST HALL INQUIRY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10097, 15 March 1909, Page 2

FORREST HALL INQUIRY.

(I'ICK I'IIKSS ASSOCIATION.) Aud!l I, MaivUl Tin. CiiiiM. nf Inquiry inlo Hi" »'f« tin-. Forrest. Hull this iniiriiiiiß. .luliii Collins, muster <if I In'. .l'''im»H slated Una ill. daylight mi I'Vlii'iiMS Hi.. ship was heading lor lii".l )5> distant witli nil sails set. Ilu W slrlictcd the chief olliccr to keep an in us possible In make a fiivtiivihlo tack. Hi? relieved tin: chief "Hi'«; o'clock when about fimr mil..'. »H ! 'l'll,. ~Ti!w were called h.y the limit** keep tlio vessel oil her course till ' when slm grazed, the bottom about » and a-ha If' from the shore. She I'tf last. About, Ihrec, minutes hd'ori' tlic .sill struck, I.lii! mate told tin' mull at whi'i'l tu port his helm haul "|>, W iU'.ss countermanded tlw order !Ml<l liim In keep on. ll.' did nut soundings, as ho believed In- iviiii w Kido tliu lino of danger. Tlm >'* course wan through Cook Ktriiils «" (lie south of Saw Zetland, Tin' ■••li'P a list to starboard. Witness B» vC CI'CW permission to lllllVI! lll'l'. M<! P small i|iiantit. v of drink to tlio » |B I ho bi'ii.'h, and" two bottles of nun l,ro ashore w<ir.' .stolen. A kc K "1 nun *»' aboard, lint hu heard afterwards ll Ill'Ollgllt il.sllOlV. Mr -Mays (Crown .Solicitor) nai« matter Of filet till! lllt'll Weill- out ,0 .ship lo rescue) tlio second oilier!' him » iiian ntiniod l.'assinore, and ''<"»» without them, lint brought a \«% «[' Captain Collins said that bifm" h j» thi' beach complaints were made til" 1 crew were, destroying tlm stores, t |iro food over the rock's mid brcakinf! chests of lea. They must have l«'J n or drunk. A complaint mm im«*. a man named Uunmay cliaseil <»iio ™ crew about the beach 'l.randi.slrmn » * Witinw (saw I'cterson with his In* l open. Witiicsti was too ill lo inlrrfcrc tlio mate knew and should li:l\<- nv'*°' attributed tlio wreck to an en'or (| l ment. possibly affected by the t^tato <» health.