"GROSS NEGLIGENCE."
.. "WRECK OF'THE TJMHLALI. (By Telcffrßpn.-I'reis Aa>oelnilon.-CoDjflebl.i '.'»,"'■ Cape Town,' September 28. : The .Marine Court of Inquiry/at Cape Town finds that the.steamer TJmhlali (which , waswrecked at Cape Point, .one. life -being • lost— that of a child) was.lost through gross negligrace. The Court suspended the certificates of the captain 'and, the chief officer for a year, and reprimanded the third, officer. .[lt was cabled on September 17 that the steamer TJmhlali, 3388 tons, with a passengers onboard, was completely wrecked at Capo Point, South Africa, having struck "in calm water, with a little fog." ,&* passengers took to the boats, one of wWoh was overturned, a baby being drowned. After a somewhat perilous timp,-in which the Lascars refund to row, and-the pawengcrs had to rdw and balo oufthe boats with their boots and hats, the? I were rescued by a Union Castlo liner.] ; '
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 625, 30 September 1909, Page 7
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141"GROSS NEGLIGENCE." Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 625, 30 September 1909, Page 7
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