CHANGED TIMES FOR CAPTAINS.
THEIR "CHAR-DOM" GONB. Captain Free, of the Zealandia, at a luncheon 011 his vessel iu Melbourne last week, smilingly referred to sotno of the drawbacks attached to the installation of wireless. "Time was," he said, "when the skipper of a boat once out of port was monarch of all he surveyed. But nil that has changed now. " Wireless," lie went 011 to say, "was a wonderful thing, and they had performed some wonderful things with it on the trip out from Clydebank. But there was a T.y in the oint; incut. 1 Tlm Zealandia was hundreds .of miles off the coast of Victoria when an etliergram Hashed aboard and lie was asked how many passengers he had aboard, and when would he arrive, and, lastly, was ordered to prepare lunch for 150 guests 'next Monday.' The skippers could not evade tho owners now. That was what he regretted. '1 long for my Czardom again,' " tho captain proceeded, amidst great amusement.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 863, 8 July 1910, Page 4
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164CHANGED TIMES FOR CAPTAINS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 863, 8 July 1910, Page 4
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