"WENT OUT FISHING."

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 5

"WENT OUT FISHING."

AND BTtOTJGHT HOME IN A LIFEBOAT. Ujt TEtraiut-n—sptctAt, cOBRE9PO!n)ENTi) i CHrlatohuroh, January 1. .:•/ Excitement was oroated at Sumner this , afternoon when tho foghorn at the C&vo . Rook Bounded tho lifeboat alarm. :A ' largo crowd of holiday-makers was on tho beach, and. there..was immediately a rush to tho Cavo Rook, to- find out tno cause of tho alarm. It was presently discovered that a . man was standing on .& rock at, Whitewash fload surrounded by water.' As it happened most or tao members ef tho regular crews of, - ii!° . !ue o° a t were ' away holiday-making,: but ■ ■ "oat quiokly' manned by those mem- - w>rs oi . tno crew .who had remained in Sumner for tho day and by other men who volun--,i leered- their seiners. There was a • verv .v- rouph sea on,: and .getting across tho bar was difficult. 1 , Tho; boTgot 'S ... over, but had then to 'surmount; l veryV : hich , breakers and to face a boisterous sea. . Unfortunately one of tho volunteer members of tho crow, unshipped .his rowlock, and, with tho handicap ,of one .oar. lost, tho work of tho party was.rendferod tho ,more arduous!, ' a tard pull of close upon' one hour TV Intewash • Head .:.*«» .rtadied;.: the tigress of tho rescuing party being watched by ffioujands on tho beach. The man on tho rock' was discovered M. be. Mr,, T; Dacre,'; a > . : :Bident;of.,Sumner., Ho-went'out;fishinain rand.wM.left a•; fisherman's ■ - "»at on- »n outlying:rock about,a chain and , a half from tho mainland,' the fishermen ; crow. intending .to return- for; him ;iri tho' afternoon, which theydid, but owing to tho • : roughness of tho sea could riot rfeAcli him ' ■