“ONLY A SAILOR.”

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6502, 29 December 1881, Page 5

“ONLY A SAILOR.”

TO TUB BDITOB. Sib,—l have waited to we whether an; kind of enquiry had been made m to the cause of the accident which occurred daring the excursion of the s.e. Penguin to Akaroa« on Beo. 18. but here been disappointed.. Doyou not think. Mr Editor, thathad this fatal accident (happened 'to any one in a.higher station bf life more would have been heard, of it f Bulno | poor feMwyhi waa " only a sailor," f . / * .* a \ ■ ■; V • ■- Bom* 'peraina ' attribute '.thq cause to dnmkehneu, but it ia a well-known fact that the men in the earvieb of tboU.B.B. Company' are, to often overworked that, they, aw thoroughly unfitted for duty, And this may, have bidnt the cause (n. the first instance. But thcflr# is a moskjieriqus thing to cbdtein* plate, After the Tararoa disaster owdwodiwawere .told thkt the Ooifapeny hid provided .every.rtehns for saving life, and here vre haw one Of their vessels, its boa* «MApw< rowleekt. v , Who it itcTblank for; this nealeot r .lt isusual to hare jroAlook*.' attached to iha,. bdsfii j .withA laavardi - When you come totlSuhk of; , the ** bright'have an .awful result through-Hhis neglect, you "agree wlth ine ithat thia natter should 4» enouited'intd.”! on, ... j n ; . NIE3CUK*. * PWhn« agreeing with our oorriapondent. . that thfi* ought “> ?» anAxhamUrw enquim ;«o muss lamina'him; filat the boat iowared was noSW oi thsfaWpto but*-»to£ •boat which iraa being ooaveysd home.-from, the regatta at Akaroa.—Kd. L.T.]