TO The Editor of the "Evening Mail."
'.1- Stadia: rifWetfca. tirj'^ 1 letter signed bl ■Jl A, ;Nayal ; 'A appealed In> your last . night'* iainfl! I .« e . B naentioned.tha • " famou* trip qf tbe Aurora to j I'Captain Drsike iti iiid W hav^ "so 6piipfetely loit himself that the boat was- nine honrs coming froib/Motnekft to-Nelaon." : .''fUi Naval ", should remembar. that, the; coxswi,i^ was real|y the man responsible f or. the sailjing of the.boat, and aa'to th!e lioiit'a long paaiage it wai thd fault of the - weathef OihQugb. ici JfeUouiblowint a strong breeze), still. .where the boat w>s, light variable' winds arid calms w»re /experienctd^ and: air to Capti. Drake 1 * i: ineixp'erience in, nautfcaT ' iuatters mosVoi the members of : ; the H^elsbn Naval Brigaderhad hetier look at home flrkt^ f or ; if "A Naval" knew much about ths winds and tides or boating he would never have menr tioned such an absurd thing ai it will appear to old sailors. I beg leave to aubicribe myself ... .-. ■ .... ■■>.., ':•:.; .r: :::i I -•••.-.,. Onb acqdai^tep.-vvith. Boats, i Nelion, Sept. lp, 1881. ' :' ' ']' , ' [Thia correspondence 5 ls ; now cloaed.— Edi N.E.M.] : •■: . ' ;! r : . .'. Wo
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 217, 12 September 1881, Page 2
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186TO The Editor of the "Evening Mail." Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 217, 12 September 1881, Page 2
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