After All.
j Many stories of naval grumbling , have been recorded, and one told by Mr Goachem certainly deserves to be added to the cumber. The first ! ' Lord says :~ ! "I had a letter from a ( post* | captain — a friend of mme — not long i ago, I will not say on what station \ j he. was, in what ship he was, nor ; with what foreign ship he was comi paring himself, but he sent ms home j a criticism of tbe foreign ship and of his own, and he went through a ! number of weaknesses, as ho thought i in his own ship as compared with the foreign, ship. My heart sank as I read one oriticism after another, and at last I came to t.he final phraße, * After all, I think I could take her i in half an hour.'" j And nn doubt he could. But the j declaration is significant from many I points of view
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Manawatu Herald, 20 September 1898, Page 3
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158After All. Manawatu Herald, 20 September 1898, Page 3
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