The Barnes Case
p. 19 · Read in the full issue
A Correction
THE Sydney office of the Messageries Maritimes Shipping Company informs us that there was an inaccuracy in our issues of June, July and August in regard to the action by their company in Papeete, Tahiti, against Captain Barnes following his incorrect re port about the SS Tahitien.
We stated that the damage claimed by the Company from Barnes was 1,000,000 francs, and that this had been reduced to one franc by the Court.
MM’s Sydney office states that 1,000,000 francs was never claimed; and that the amount, right from the beginning was only one franc— as a symbolic indemnity for the Company. At the present rate of exchange, one franc is worth about Ud. in Australian currency.