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Preliminary.—Art I, In the following rules every steamship which is under sail and not under steam is to be considered a sailing ship: and every steamship which is under steam, whether under sail or not, is to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—I address you again on the above-named subject, because from the obstinate silence of the Board and the Government, there seems to be a disposition to let the matter drop; while the public interests, of which, while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The Government returned to the Navigation Board their deliverance on the collision of the Hunter and Kembla. The Board had sent the evidence some time before, such as it was—and the decision recommending the prosecution…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have to request that the quotations from the case of the Duke of Sussex, in my letter in your issue of the 8th of January, may be read after the last paragraph but one in the second column, from which it has been accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Your correspondents seem to want very much to know how the Steam Navigation Board came to the decision that the Kembla was to blame. I think I can gratify them. I have had shown to me a drawing said to be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—The various letters which have appeared under the above signature, on the collision of the Kembla and Hunter steamers, would have been passed by me with the contempt they deserve, had I not found that there are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The evidence which appeared in your journal is identical with that taken by the Board. In your issue it appears in the affirmative form; by the Board it is recorded as question and answer, but, of course, the import is the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—So many different statements are in circulation in regard to the above accident, will yen kindly allow me (the principal sufferer) a space in your paper to explain exactly how the accident really occurred. The circumstances are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—As ono of the public and a long resident in the colony, when the collision occurred between the Hunter and the Kembla, I watched with some anxiety the result of the examination made before the Steam Navigation Board,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SIR,—WerE I disposed to play upon a name, as Mr. Fox has done—who, despite his cognomen, is a very simple gentleman—I have certainly a fair opportunity; but, after all, such witticisms tell only upon the weakest minds. I…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SIR,—So many letters having appeared in your journal of late with reference to the collision between the steamers Kembla and Hunter, may I be permitted to ask a space in your widely circulated paper, for the insertion of the law…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following documents, having reference to the collision of the above steamers, have been handed to us by the Minister of Finance and Trade for publication:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HAVING taken the evidence (transmitted here with) of the captains of the Kembla and Hunter [C. Sullivan and R. Mailler], as well as of such other persons [F. Blix, G. Bore, G…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I regret the necessity of troubling you with anything personal, but as you have published some strictures of mine, written as an autidote to the very dangerous and unwarranted dogmas promulgated by your…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—It will be remembered by those who have read the letters published by your contemporary, to which you alluded in a leading article yesterday, that several cases of collision are adduced where "porting" the helm in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"We started from Belfast at 7,50 p.m. of 21st December, [185[?]] for Liverpool. Weather fine and clear; wind, W.N.W. At 2.10 a.m. of 22nd, passed Calf of Man light, distant two ships' lengths, and shaped a course…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following documents, having reference to the collision of the above steamers, have been banded to us by the Minister of Finance and Trade for publication:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Samuel Wellington Cook, the licensed occupier of the N[?]ing run, near Tamworth, charged William Campbell, a free selector on a portion of that run declared available for this purpose by the Crown Lands Alienation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Monday evening, the 23rd iostant, an accident occurred on the Picton Ext nsion Line of Railway, which terminated fatally the next morning at four o'clock, the particulars of which can be best gathered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—My object in troubling you again so soon is to correct a typographical error in my last letter. In naming the States which comprise the "Zollverein" and "Steuervertin" of Germany, the word "Russia"…
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