A FLOATING COFFIN.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, Feb. 16. Tho seamen of tho ship Spokane, at Newcastle, were granted a reoission of the | articles, wages, and oosts in an notion brought against tho oaptain on tho ground that the vessel’s rigging and life-boats wero rotten, and that tho supply of food was insufficient and. bad. The ovideuoo as to seaworthiness was contradictory. One shipwright said ho could push with his hand holes in tho mizzontop, while ho oould push a knife to tho hilt nearly all over tho foremast. Lloyd’s surveyor disagreed with this.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1382, 17 February 1905, Page 3
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94A FLOATING COFFIN. Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1382, 17 February 1905, Page 3
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