THE TUI-DOUGLAS COLLISION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1490, 26 October 1885, Page 2

THE TUI-DOUGLAS COLLISION.

. (TO THE. EDITOR OF; THE ' STANDARD.) . • . Sir,— Seeing that you published 'the t Douglas version ofTTOllision^ you would [much oblige me tip you'Would publish my * * -■ v Pope. . 06fe.aE-*V.>s^ftw\A (To the editoivEyening Post.) I between theTui. and Jane. Douglas, m : youf is'sue'of t^e'^Tst inst., afidf iAoJbemg here to' contradict it at the time, x beg i now to give you my^"yersion. The Jane Douglas' for ; tKe JFjMjb ei^U't- tuontiis h has waited to race the 1 Tui{fr6ni. Wellington \&qd Foxtpn every time, she .leaves th9se waited one tour aiid twenty^ minutes ! f or the Tui to leayp,.ah"dT was, ,t«ld About it by the'en'-Vineer 'o^ ! Jthe' Douglas tStfJto but nadjl^ewca^f^ coal bajjged andfcarted j|trom' the yard expressly to beatllieTui: icl^ar of the* .noi^h.end., of . :^ie«-sQne'e^ jT^ai;f I . jFqupdj^h'e , Douglas; ■woitirig^ j After founding.) .. Eoj'nt ; Halsweilc M& neared each other, -and- the Douglas commenced to yaw about, ol called out to Coptain Fraser, about it, ;bul? , hef paid no Attention tom e. Jj^eo^osto^jnm^jio^jtp.. ■come foolose'ti) meTasTdldlnbt wanTto go 'acros the harbo e ffr".yb<S 1 :eo out, jyhen-he ran Sup alongside, %n*d ia£h:li£ffiaCTOßition for .about five min^te% 'whe^' |we parted. 'After passin^'^gbj r he did the kame, again, .and. we kepi company r till I abreaSt'thd' Pilot Station, when we^agam J parted. Captain Fraser iii'liis report ka.y^ that his lady~,passengersi got Jll. tlirongn it. THe : passengers ih^l siw A Were chaffing and'Taughirig at each other 1 ;he most of^the f iineT I n&iti'eSiphati- < sally deny gQingialongsiae -tke Douglas, i und Captain Fraser is certainly m errot i ibout his^ Beiiig • frighteiied;f I ' inclined , to : thihk that hk Mkes ' to make ; ! mountains' , ( out ! : of. imolthills.. '.. i' wonder hj^ did ho ( t ' ; give, a : .more . qoijfect ; yersiqn bt ; the Eapiti affair, when his lady, passengers were running about the deck undressed, seeing! that he likes to see his. name, m iprint. ■ i I also send yon a letter 1 addressed by my pessebgers to me abo'^t the collision;^! am, &b.,* ; ! ! .- -,-r.-; --: y-~.^-~'- >''-:-■ : '; ! -0. POKE.. 1 . '. „ • , '•-■■'" •.■'■•'■';';-* - ■ Master ft & Tni." . " ' WelluT^6n723rf ; ocfeber;^ ;/ ; J ;J ; r ! ' rti ' ' 'Foxton, 21st October, .1885^ ! To CJaptain .Pope.-^Dear' Sir—On arrival here to-day we wer« greatly (surprised to hear that Captain; Fraßer^of the Jane Dorfglas, hadfbeeh circulating a false report'tb "the effect * tliat .vrhen m. charge of the 1 - Thir 'leaving 'Wellington harbour on thd 20th !> inst had collided \vith f and. run/ into? his; Jtqa.Js r / t \fe hereby 'tKat thefault dfany) lay. oniliis^ide, Be KeV^ iri^th& "©st^pic^ waited for the Tui 'to : race.- ?The Tui kept her course from -the north side of Queenlß^h9rf r so,^aß.weUVfiomt?^>nidde? biioy.) When off Fort Gordon, through bad steering, ; he yawed'hiaahip alongside theTuii and m tliat position raau to the pilot station. (Signed)— W. Fawsett (E;' >W. Mills & Co.), A, Pierard (W. Nathan £ Co.), James Carroll,' PalmerstbhV W: 1 iTaylor, Palmerston, y?. Woojcobki 'Pit^ -iheraton, and several other passengers'bf 1 the s.s. Tui.