The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY'GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning Tuesday, September 1, 1891.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 654, 1 September 1891, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY'GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning

Tuesday, September 1, 1891.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God’s, and truth’s.!

The steamer Manapouri was in port on Sunday, when many friends of Captain Logan expressed their sympathy with him in the charge that had been made against him by the authorities in Melbourne, alleging carelessness in the handling of his vessel near Cape Schanck. Captain Logan is one of those commanders whose splendid and well-earned reputation make travellers have the greatest confidence in him. Those who know him feel safe in anticipating the decision of the Melbourne authorities—who, by the way, are evidently now trying, by a strained zealousness, to make up for neglect in the past. Captain Logan was interviewed in Auckland. He said that he had not heard of the charge until he reached New Zealand, and then straightforwardly adds“ In any ease I take all the blame there is for the occurrence. My officers were all at their posts, executing the orders given to them, and I was at my post myself. I expect further proceedings when I get back to Melbourne on this trip, and in fact I court a full inquiry, for I feel sure that when I am present and explain all the circumstances connected with the case I shall be dealt with as I deserve; and I am convinced that the allegation of misconduct will be found to be groundless. I have no desire to gloss it over in any way.” In further conversation Captain Logan said that he had been a shipmaster for 39 years, and in the intercolonial trade for 35 years, and this was the first accident of any kind that had occurred to a ship under his charge, He had navigated some of the most dangerous coral isles in the Pacific without mishap, and he was as familar with the New Zealand and Australian coasts as any man could be, though for all that he did not relax his vigilance. He felt very keenly the position in which he had been placed by the Victorian authorities, and said that if the safety of his passengers or ship had been in peril the case would, have been different. His family wish him to retire from the sea.