WRECK OF THE TRIUMPH.
.'.'■■ Official Inquiry. - , ; (BY TKLK«KAPH) ; (fMIUJTiTED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) i. Auckland, December 21. Captain Broth-rton, m his evidence, deposed thaf, exhausted by illnefs, work, and worry on iho night of the wreck of the -Trinmpbj'ne- dozed off on the bridge of r the sreameraad t<sU,aslee.p; of the cre.fr were L the worse 'of liquor. On the 'day m question he had: bad a glass of chanipagae a,t noon, a ■■ M anliemOuaije ait 4 o'clock, and a gitaa of brandy with the pilot after leafitig the shipping officeV \ Ho : beai'd -tbp pilqt'sky it fiisWiflence i hat One of bis (the captain's) friends wtritover the side of the ship the wo-se for liquor, and he believed tbat was so. He had no interest m the; VeasVi directly or in* directly. . i
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 21, 22 December 1883, Page 3
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131WRECK OF THE TRIUMPH. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 21, 22 December 1883, Page 3
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