Cross-examined by Mr. Smyth: The _Albatross_ is supposed to go outside in any weather. Her length is one hundred and fifty feet, beam, inside paddle boxes, nineteen feet six inches, outside paddle boxes fifty feet, and depth eleven feet six inches. She sits on an even keel; but the _Alert_ sat very much by the stern. I knew the late Captain Mathieson, and he was a skilful mariner. The master on board of his own steamer is the best judge of what to do; he knows his vessel. There was nothing to prevent Captain Mathieson from altering his course for the Heads. I don’t think the _Alert_ wanted any cargo to make her stable. She would float without anything. If any steamers go to sea with bunker lids simply laid down by their own weight, that would to a certain extent be a cause of danger. I have a canvas awning on the _Albatross_. LUCY EDITH KILPATRICK (the plaintiff) recalled by defendant’s counsel, in reply to Mr. Mitchell, said: I received some money from the fund that was subscribed. I am to get £100. I get it in weekly instalments. TO MR. SMYTH: The £100 I am to receive is not from Messrs. Huddart, Parker & Co., but from a fund subscribed by the public. I do not know the amount of insurance the owners of the _Alert_ received. WILLIAM WILSON, examined by Mr. Purves, stated: I am the master of the steamer _Eagle_, a tug boat. Her owners are Messrs. Huddart, Parker & Co., and I am in their employ. I have been master for nineteen years. I knew the _Alert_, and was in her for eight months in 1889. I remember the wreck of the ship _Holyhead_ at Point Lonsdale, Port Phillip Heads. I was employed on the _Alert_ at that wreck, for about three weeks altogether. I had an opportunity of judging the capacity of the _Alert_ as a sea-boat. I say she was good. I did not see anything in my eight months’ experience of her that made me think she was a dangerous ship. I did not see any fault with her at all. I wish she had been mine. Cross-examined by Mr. Box: We had pretty rough weather when working at the _Holyhead_. Other boats could not have done the work like the _Alert_. Nothing would stop her until she met a gale of wind. Of course in a gale of wind we could not get cargo out of the _Holyhead_. I had on one occasion one hundred and forty tons of cargo in the _Alert_. It made her sit differently in the water. It balanced her.