The Wairarapa Enquiry.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 231, 23 November 1894, Page 3

The Wairarapa Enquiry.

liy Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, This Day. Mr Barber, secretary of the relief lnnd. denies that any Imt the utmost consideration "as shown the survivors. Every care was taken to relieve deserving cases. The wreck, in fact, left some of them better off than they were before. Both rash and clothes were supplied to the surviving passengers and crew who needed them, while their hotel hill was paid. The crew, m addition to getting clothing, got a few pounds in cash, and the passengers have received £i -)2 15s (id out of the fund and the crew £i\ 14s <>d, while in addition fyi lias been given to three widow -in Auckland. The hotel hills amounted to So far the relief hind is about £IOOO. The relief committee is being urged to have the vi< Imi >' grave t on the Barrier fenced. There are five plots in various parts, some of which can he obtained and eonsccrated as pave yards. 11 is unlikely, owing to the difficulty of removing the bodies, that any buried on the Island will ever he taken away. Dim pin. This Day. Mr Mills gave further evidence and produced reports relating to the two occasions when the Waira. rapa was anchored twice off the Banks Peninsula. The caution displaced liy Captain Macintosh in twice anchoring oil Banks Peninsula was severely 1 litil is, <1 by some o! the passengers, including members of Parliament. Captain Macintosh recently suffered from influenza, and had been at the lakes, but report! il hints. If quite well. Witness had a decided opinion that the s.iviety of tie. prcvioit, hour . bad dulled t ..Main Macintosh's judgment. He did not think he gave a thought to tin Wairarapa heating the 1 at The Mararoa wa ■ the only boat tin v looked to for . mart passage ~ He had n d hi all thecapt 1111 ■ , old give evidence. They were not blamed it they did not arrive to time.