CAPTAIN ACQUITTED.
'■'• : MALEKULA WRECK. :< By •--;'-•- . ' BrisbaneJ -, April 29. The 'marine court of: inquiry regarding the wreck of ..Lever, and Company's vßchooner'Malekula, 130 tons, lost re- ; «»ntly ai-Baiipton Reef, in the Cbcster- '.'. field' Group, -found that, the ' schooner was,- lost ..through 'the. chronometer placing .her off her true'.(course; : and through.bad steering.;; The court exonerated 'the' captain of all blame, and placed on record . its appreciation of his intrepidity and skill in navigating a' small boat 700; miles ; over the' Coral ', Sea, from .Bampton Island to tho Queensland coast.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 805, 30 April 1910, Page 5
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