THE TRIUMPH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 7, 6 December 1883, Page 3

THE TRIUMPH.

— r — .'• - : ■ ; . (pNITKD ( P BSB ASSOCIATION) j Auckland, D cember 4. '■ It is really not known who the underwriters of the vessel are, and the amounts of insurances are not known. Brown, Campell and Co, the local agents of Lloyd*, refused to take the vessel when the offer of abandonment was made, localise they do not know whether she is insured m Lloyds or nof, and they would not do so until enquiry. If they hadaccepted they might have incurred ex« pense and risk and then found that Lloyds was not concerned. Other companies involved would instruct their own agents. , ; Dc Menzien, of the Triumph, states, m reference to the withholding of gratuities which are usually paid to the captain and the doctor, that the statement published might hare led to the inference that there were improprieties between the officers and the immigrants, bat that there w-re none such, and if there were anything of the kind, at all it was between some of the passengers and the immigrants. There is a strong feeling of sympathy m the ship for Captain flroiher.ton m bis misfortune-, and those under him all speaker ery highly of him. He has held a command since he reached the aj?e -of twenty«.two, and nt the present time is considerably under forty. This is eald to be the first mishap that has ever occurred to a vessel under his charge*