A COSTLY COLLISION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14658, 27 January 1912, Page 4 (Supplement)

A COSTLY COLLISION.

CIU-ISJiR v. LJXKR. A bill of costs -amounting to more than has been inclined in i;i...:. t -qu-_-ai.-o 01 wle woL.i-s.cn ii.-ii.o. rt.nvko';ii.d the V."hk-- s>u.r hnwi- 01y_;jic. Vi noil a cruiser which wwi Ihe naaon hi ore Lnaii to bli.iu and a great, huer whoso ii..atiiig value probably exceeds iti'.UUO.UOO .i.eet in C0..1.5.0U, mid are both damaged, tiie bili is an w-no. moils one on beta .sides. Nut only are ;hore the henry costs of replacing the iimvfce'a crumpled bows and of repairing the bole :n the side of the 01vnm!i-,' > ;vii;eh altogether will amount to ..-.ore than £'oo,ooo, but there is the heavv daily expense of demurrage and of " transierrmg 2.XM passeugers, who pi id in r a .'^ s n ' K ' os i;Ciis<!S something like £40,0J0, to other boats. Some of the expenses incurred during -,\: C second wnen the warship and the i'nor iret will approximate as follows:—Cost of 'br-k'"- and repairing O.'v'.r.pic, -I'o.OOO: incidental exnon'ses £•]'(> (ij;)' cost 01 repairing; H.M.S. Hawke and loss ot services. £30.000: cost of = roeial trams, £301: cost of homing end iol-° I 'to" 1 " 1S !|C ' l '- , ""I' P !, ssen.;ers. >800; i:ih.<m pane ofrorcd three Wars' „tv t«, t e Timbers of ihn o'y^; c y „,.,." ~£, were beni"- nn : r i ir n, , . : tint n. it - ,"• t,le " ,?n fl^niT-d txt- as the vessel was „, )t , chmt Suipp:r,g Aet. to , vaw For th-n-ould he of oorV, o ■■,f„ ™*T 1,0, '? t the shipping"worß ""Portanoe to