WE DO NOT HOLD OURSELVES RESP

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 49, 28 April 1863, Page 2

WE DO NOT HOLD OURSELVES RESP

FOR THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED I

CORRESPONDENTS,

(2b the Editor of the Invercargill Ti Sir, — We, the undersigned, beg t< before your notice the particulars of a able accident which occurred in our Sunday, the 19th inst. The cutter Fly, from Stewart's Is Eiverton, with a cargo of limber, was over the bar, in charge of the pilot, blew so hard from the south-west as to s sails and render her quite unman Both anchors were then let go, but < the violence of the gale, both chains and the vessel was driven on shore a pletely broken up during the night. The pilot, in his praiseworthy ende render assistance, was unfortunately c with one of his crew and two men belo the unfortunate wreck. Had the moorings, so long promi; which have lain some twelve month; already overcrowded Invercargill jetty, their place, the above sad loss ot life perty would have been avoided. "We of opinion that the Government shoul< a lifeboat for this port without del ay .V Hoping you will favor us with a your columns for the above, We are Sir, Yours truly, John R. "Wills, D. Munro, E. Robinson Wilson, Alfred Clulee, J. Surraan Hawksworth, Charles C. Garrett, Brock, Chas. Humphries, H. M. Fredk. A. Eoberts, Henry Kinder, Denham, A. Nicolas, C. G. Basstiai Basstian, Jos. Blacklock, Duncan C J. W. Eaymond, Peter Grant, Henr John Shillinglaw, W. W. Whitemi Daniel Durbridge, L. TM'Gilliveray, Hodgkinson, Theophilus Daniels M'Donald, John Howell, Fredk. James Dodds, W. H. Cozens, Thou Geo. Stevens, Wm. Sculley. Eiverton, 23rd A ril, 1863.