GAMIER DISASTER.
Melbourne, September 1. Giuvk charges <if inaction are brought against the captain of tho Easby. The chief engineer of the Gambier says that if the Easby had lowered her boats not fivo people would have been drowned. It looked as if they were afraid their own vessel would sink. Two stoerapo passenpers, named Miller and Quinn, who were reported drowned in the Gambier, travallod by another ato-imor. This reduces Mie list of casnaltiei to 21. A passenger by the Gambier controverts tho statement that the Easby's penple were flow in coming to the rescue. He alleges i hat the lashings of the Gambier's boats rendered it impossible to lower them in loss tb»B ten minute?.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2986, 3 September 1891, Page 2
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117GAMIER DISASTER. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2986, 3 September 1891, Page 2
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