The Globe. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1875.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 437, 6 November 1875, Page 2

The Globe. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1875.

We presume we have not yet heard the last of the quarrel between his Excellency the Q-overnor and Captain Logan, of the Hero. Captain Logan has certainly rather the worst of it at the present time, as he has been punished for over-crowding his ship on the trip on which he brought the present Governor down to New Zealand. The question as to whether he or the Marquis ofNormanby was thefirsttolose temper, is not of any great importance, but it is curious that the Customs authorities should have so suddenly developed a zeal for the performance of their duties with regard to the overcrowding of the particular vessel under Captain Logan’s command. The captain must regret that his vessel was chosen to convey the Governor to Auckland, and we think he must also regret that he could not let the circumstances of that very unpleasant voyage be forgotten, but rushed into print with an account of the wrongs he believes he has sustained. His well-known character as an able and courteous commander, has not suffered in the estimation of those who have been in the habit of sailing with him. His employers still retain their confidence in him. He will not again be troubled by having the Governor as a passenger on board the Hero, and though he may regard the decisions against him as being unfair, yet it would be better both for his employers and himself if he now suffered the matter to drop. A continuation of newspaper correspondence can do no good, and will only excite further ill-feeling between those who believe that a Governor can do no wrong, and Captain Logan’s partizans. With regard to the “ plain unvar- “ nished tale,” which appeared in the Argus , and which is considered to be of sufficient importance to be telegraphed to all the papers of the colony, it gives a slightly different version of the quarrel on board the Hero. But there are one or two statements in it which show that the writer has not had much expert ence of passenger steamers. He complains first of the captain “ absenting “ himself from the saloon for days “ together,” and a few lines farther on he states that. the “ opinions of the “ passengers, which were pretty freely “ expressed, were that Captain Logan “ was quite unequal to the difficulties “ in which he found himself, through “ he and his agents overloading the “ ship,” Now it is a well-known fact that the passage alluded to was an exceptionally stormy one, and Captain Logan no doubt had but little time for visits to the saloon. His duty would keep him thoroughly occupied, and when he felt himself at liberty to leave the deck of his vessel he would naturally require rest. As for the second statement, it is too absurd to require comment. The Hero arrived safely, and has since faced heavier weather even than that in this memorable trip, under the same commander. Such imputations on the seamanship of such a well-known shipmaster as Captain Logan are ridiculous, and only lead to the opinion that the other portions of the letter may be equally inaccurate.