The Wreck of the Wairarapa.
Strong Sydney Comments.
(Received Dec, 11,10,15 a.m.)
Sydney, December 11,
The Sydney Morning Herald commenting ou the verdict of the Court of Enquiry, says that it intensities the sense of indignation regarding the incidents of the deplorable disaster. The story of the wreck presents human nature in the meanest of aspects; negligence, recklessness, indifference, and cruelty are written largely over the report, The disgraceful conduct of the officers in not properly and promptly using tho boats, is apparently to bo attributed as much to ignorance as inhumanity. The wreck is the most disgraceful perhaps, in all its incidents, that have ever been recorded in connection with Australian steamships,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4899, 11 December 1894, Page 3
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113The Wreck of the Wairarapa. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4899, 11 December 1894, Page 3
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