THE TALCA'S VOYAGE.
PECULIAR CONDUCT OF TALUTAN PILOT.
Received 8,10.7 p.m. Sydney, May 8. The Talca's captain states the crew refused duty sixteen hundred miles fr»m Tahiti, demanding that he put in to obtain medical aid. The pilot at Papeete liarbor, after learning that there was typhoid aboard, and obtaining the Biil of Health which showed that smallpox existed in Iqnique when the Talca sailed, promised to return with a doctor within an hour. Tho Talca remained off the island for five hours, but no assistance was sent. As darkness was coming on and the Talca was drifting to leeward, the crow consented to come on to Sydney.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8105, 9 May 1906, Page 3
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108THE TALCA'S VOYAGE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8105, 9 May 1906, Page 3
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