TO CAPTAIN MACKIE, S.S. GOTHENBURG.

West Coast Times, Issue 333, 17 October 1866, Page 2

TO CAPTAIN MACKIE, S.S. GOTHENBURG.

Dear Sir —We cannot separate without expressing our sincere thanks for your unvarying kindness and attention to us during this tempestuous and protracted voyage from. Melbourne to Hokitika. « Your anxious desire to promote our comfort and happiness — your unremitting attention and earnest endeavors to assuage the annoyances incidental to such a trip, alike demand our respect and esteem. We pray that you may be long spai'ed in this trade, and that you may never ; again experience such a passage. ~ ~ . JWith best wishes for your future success, We remain, yours respectfully, (Signed) Eliza Gordon Anne Nicholl i Lucy R. Stephens . Anne Hamilton James Eyliell James Turner , Martyn Flagg Jas. Wearsou Henry Hall John Bennett John Heffernan John O'Malloy (Fifteen other cabin passengers, and 197 steerage passengers.)

To the Ladies and Gentlemen, passengers per Steamship Gothenburg.

I beg to thank you for your kind wishes for my future success in tlus trade, and for your approval of my conduct during this indeed trying passage.

Permit me to say, that I should be sorry if the detention we have had in the Bay should injure this port, and to show you that it is extraordinary, I have been trading here for the last eighteen months, and have always landed my passengers and cargo with little or no delay. The sea portion of the passage was more severe than witnessed by me before. Wishing you all success on this great goldfield,

I am, yours, &c, Hugh Mackie.