STRANDING OF STEAMER
ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE OP PILOT. BRISBANE, February 21. In a Supremo Court special case it was found that the Government was liable for the stranding of the steamer Eastern in January, 1911. The company, alter the mishap, issued ,a writ against the Government, claiming £SO,QUO, averring that the disaster was due to the negligence of the pilot employed by the Government. [The steamer, belonging to the Eastern and Australian Steamship Company went ashore on Salamander Bank, twenty-two miles north of Brisbane, during a fog.]
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8361, 22 February 1913, Page 5
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86STRANDING OF STEAMER New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8361, 22 February 1913, Page 5
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