THE ARAWATTA COLLISION.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12020, 22 August 1907, Page 3

THE ARAWATTA COLLISION.

Received August 22, 0.2 a.m. Brisbane, August 21. Albertson testified at the inquiry that the lights were lit for sixteen pr seventeen nights after leaving New Zealand, but they were not lighted an five or six nights, as they were short of oil. He denied that they bad run out of oil on the night of the collision » and stated that the , lamps were lit that night; When the lamps were not lit a man stood by ready to light them at a moment's notice. The seaman who was at the wheel between two and thiee on the morning of the collision stated that tbe lights were burning brightly when he was relieved.