The Tui-Douglas Collision.
(To the Editor Evening Post). ' fr?S5tR,— Seeing m yonr issue of last night . ■ (23rdV the letter from Captain Pope, of "the s.s. Tui, stating that the Jane Douglas waited to race the Tui for the' last eight months, I certainly, deny it, and as for waiting the afternoon of the 20th, my time of sailing was 4 p.m., ;and I got away at 4.15, and went easy ahead until outside No 4 : then fall spead until I stopped off the Steeple Bocks, then being '. m the kelp. What occurred from leav- ' ing the whar^ until X stopped the engines Captain Pope Villlearn at a future date. — I am, &c, , . , i.■ . . f • .. ; -..,• : •' ' '■:■ J. W. G. Traser; ; f Y (j t .. Master s.s. Jane Douglas. ■Wellington, 24th October.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1491, 27 October 1885, Page 4
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