LOSS OF IHE GAMBIER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2985, 1 September 1891, Page 3

LOSS OF IHE GAMBIER.

(liV KI.KCTKIC Tr:LKi;IIAPH.—CorVKKiHT.) NlKi.inntNH, August, 2'J. Osi'.of tilt' lifeboats belonging to tin) illf:itfri ste tiller (I.urioier h;is been picked up three lmltM away frdrii the scene of the disinter. It contained three corpses —th"-*e of :in old man, u young man, and also a girl. The (lambier in insured for £15,000, of v. Iticlt i.7."00 in in a i-outheru insurance ollice, mitJ a similar amount in the Comlni'.rcial AHsiirancs; Company. Both companies are reinsured, and almost all tho marine insurance efficos in Melbourne are interested. The Argus has a In idinp article commenting on thu manlier in which the authorities examine life-savins appliances on »• .ssels, and severely ttiers to the lifeboat _,ervicn. A ihoiiL'li the attention of the signalman wis Billed by lishermen to the liluo lights burnt by the E isby he took 110 action in the matter, alleging that the si - ,1a were those 'if a vessel for a pilot, . j Argus concluded its article by saj.n, .ostitis impossible to believe that such .. terrible tiling as davits honking a boatful of people and dragging them under could have occurred if the apparatus had been in perfect order.