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Leven Ship Yard Dumbarton 20th Nov. 1876
Thomas Gray toge Board of Trade
London.
My dear Sir,
My Steamer Ocean left Hong Kong for Australia on the 20th Sept. last with a large number of passengers. She got back to that port on the 29th idem, with much difficulty with her boilers burnt by the carelessness of the second Engineer. Captain Jaques naturally desired to get rid of this man who had by gross negligence not only cost the owner of the Steamer a large sum of money, but had imperilled the lives of the passengers at that season on the China Sea.