THE ACCIDENT TO THE MULLOGH.
ACCIDENT '"" TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE STAB. | ; Sik,-H»I shall be obliged if you will correct j the statement made in your paper of yes- i '.tvrt]kyJSi>}the effect that "I had no car«o or ballast below," the fact being that 1 hadful.y j (twenty-three tons of cargo in my hold. The accident occurred through the giving way { of a part oflhe hand: rail—it riot being able io Bust»in the weight of a package being lowered from the ship—the hand rail giving way, brought the weight on the side of the reusel, and made my' vesaeljcareen over, wben tue paeknj/es I had on deck slipped into the i water. <Aihe total,weight ifcbad on dock was I under eleven tons. Your obedient servant, W. H. TURNER, Master of the S.S. Mullogh. 12th Nov., 1868.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 158, 13 November 1868, Page 2
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