WRECK OF THIS ELINGAMITE
PROVISION' IrORl r OR ARE 11 EARING. (Fbou Que Ot.h ConP.moKnr.s'T.l WELLINGTON. October 12. Legislation hiifi been iutrntl'u.cccl by the Minister o{ Marine piovidiuH for a rehearing regarding the cireiiinst.inccK ot the wreck of the «teamer Elingamite on the Three Kings. The rehearing has been granted 011 the ground that neft and mportant evidence regarding the incorrect charting of the islands has been discovered. The bill provides that application for a rehearing must be made within three mouths fruni the cnninicnceniont of the itel by hv on behalf of the master or anv certificated officer of the etc,' Unship. Provision is made th.it the evidence taken at the investigations in 1902 «'t"d f 19y3 may be nccejited by the convt, us it will he 'impossible to call all the witnesses who were then examined. The magistrate [Mr llaselden) ami one of the assessors (Captain Smith) will lie available, but the other assessor (Captain Wadilove) was lost in flip Dnco.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15273, 13 October 1911, Page 3
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