DISAPPOINTMENT.
(To the Editor of the Herald.) Sir, —With about SCO or more unfortunate and credulous sightseer* Jined up at the s.s. Tuateii to board, the warship Repulse this morning, as per advertisement, after receiving full complement of passengers, we steamed gaily to the hay. After steaming round the warship orders came to get to, or rather t'i return from whence we came. Two other barge loads of victims were .also waiting to> get aboard. What became of them I don't know us our Tunica steamed be Jc for all she was worth, iandiug us, on the wharf, minus two bob and no beg pardons. Wonderful and sublime engineering on the part of the powers that be. The expressions used by our passengers in some instances would be unfit for publication.—l am ,etc, A VICTIM.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16426, 9 May 1924, Page 3
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135DISAPPOINTMENT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16426, 9 May 1924, Page 3
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