CORRESPONDENCE.
j. To the Editor of The Colon&L 1 x '' °y ['."* Sib, —Having seen a letter in your pager) "signed ,^ Bowliau (Fore-Bowline it ought to baj.'in which t; seferal boyi in our.ship are said to have'spoken !of jumping o»erbo»rd rather than sail with the ship or Captain; we with it to be kaowa that tjhe^egre twO; of us, out of three on board, that dbsire' no betie'r..... m ister or Bbip. The Captain has beei^mostj kind to us, and has spent hours of ten-times in teaching us our duties in aeamanehip, for which we, are,most ; . th»nkful, th re wae never an angry wiJ'rd/ quarrel, or | eomplaiut until we arrived at this pofll.M'We'"k[)ow , thit one boymade use of the wordi/putrfo^ri'for ' ' several of us, but he has sailed with the"ship t and Ci.ptain last voyage; for sixteen month*, 'atid'gaVe u»\ to understand in London that,we hitfa'feboti ship^ to ' sail in, and a kind master to sail-'iiftrfSri'-'We'aro' ' quite free in London to ohooie a niafiter,' 'h6nej of us b« ing apprenticed. —Yours respectfully, '"'"'l :' ,",■'.-..'/ f , J's ;'■../ j C. A; IJbffbeSoN, ~■ .■■■'■•v-i'.-.d John Baker, . liiw 1 Boys on board the barque Tongoy. . . , AFl^p.—On MSnaayiafternorinHatf'OhVisWßuVon, | M r J. Seaton picked up a bank^depbsit'Tefcetot' vfor ' £ .000 on a Duoedin b»nk. On1 m«kiD)g'enIquh!tei. it 1' J win found, to belong to. Profesio^Qa»caJtt?, a#ho f'Was "' vi aware of his loss.— Press. -.inoiii
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Colonist, Volume XXII, Issue 2514, 22 February 1879, Page 3
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224CORRESPONDENCE. Colonist, Volume XXII, Issue 2514, 22 February 1879, Page 3
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