THE MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL.
The " Dnily News" says Sir Charles A/iSedstfk Mil relating to merchant shipping ha'i the fortune to be at once attacked by what may be called the Left and the Right of the parties wMch are'prjncipally concerned" in the discussion. Mr Plimsoll declared the provisions of the scheme to be nna*tfsfaetory and good-for-nothing. Without* however* going' into the provisions of the Government «o**Bnre, it may be said that it lean* more ou tEe prior ciple of punishment than. on that of prevention in the ease of overloaded vessels at sea. The co^ntr^ can now see how imioh of tl.e oflScial programme? prepared for it, and i p last night did not actually give promise of much - that isvnew, it at least foreshadowed a good deal winch must be accounted important<
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Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 449, 3 April 1875, Page 2
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133THE MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL. Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 449, 3 April 1875, Page 2
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