The Audit Inquiry

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1471, 1 November 1905, Page 3

The Audit Inquiry

By Telegraph.-PreM Association. Wellington, this da;. Mr Fisher olosod his' crbo before tbo Audit Commission yesterday bj cilling Mr Lnndon as a witaesß. Mr Willis mentioned the qnostkm of expenses. The Commission said that they had powor to deal with it, bat would not commit themselves at present.

Fisher in the Box Wellington, thin day. .The Audit Commission resumed this morning, Dr, Findlay suggested that us Captain Seddan intondod to submit bin.-e'l', Mr. Fisher should go intq the wimesi-box. Mr, Fisher said he had no objection to givo evidence, tie was crossexamined by Dr, Find'ay as to how ho arrived at the date Jane 9 h as the date of the Beddon voucher, end said ho had looked np tho dale on whioh Captain Soddon was in Christohurch, and arrived at the conclusion tint way, but he afterwards found he bad iiM'ln a mistake in the number of tho and date. In corroding tho former he corrected tho latter. It was iiuposs'bl? for him to say from whom ho Jim learood the amount of tho vouchor, ft, oaire as a rumour; but not from 'Villis 'Mr Fisher, cross examiuod by D. FLidlay, said that he was satisfied that Captain Seddon never ro'e'eived payment on ■accountof the voucher seon by Wilta and others,; He should '/say; that it was a physical impossibility for a genuino vouoher to pass through, the boobs without being recorded. Bo still believed 'that Willis and'-, others saw a vouoher. Preaßed as to. whether it was genuine or not he said it was an inexplioablo mystery, and he could not,- provide a theory. He denied emphatically that he bad stated Willis had: misled him.." Witness, later, said it seemed that the vouchor must have been a hoaxed, one.