["The Loss of the Schah Jehan", The South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Thursday 07 August 1862, page 2]
THE LOSS OF THE SCHAH JEHAN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE REGISTER.
Having been one of many others who attended in open Court at Port Adelaide for three successive Court-days to hear evidence examined on the occasion of the damages occasioned to the Schah Jehan at the so-called Port of Wallaroo, we were not a little surprised at the non-publication of the whole proceedings, which would have brought the whole evidence before the public, in stead of a one-sided report, injurious to Captain Allen, the commander of the ship, and beneficial to Port Wallaroo as a harbour, which every nautical man connected with the Port of Adelaide denounces as unfit and unsafe for ships to enter; and as the depositions taken at the Court are before the House of Assembly, I expect you to publish those facts as you have done the one-sided report of a Committee incompetent to report on nautical affairs, and more inclined to defend Port Wallaroo than do justice to an experienced captain, who has spent thirty years at sea, and nineteen of that time to and from Port Adelaide. Must he be sacrificed, both in his substance and in his profession, to uphold a harbour so dangerous, and to gratify those who are interested in it, and destroy a man's reputation, and prevent him from earning a living for himself and family?
I am, Sir, &c,
WILLIAM GALWAY.
Port Adelaide, August 6, 1862.
[It was impossible to publish the evidence in the paper, on account of its extreme length; but Parliament has ordered it to be printed.--Ed.]
