TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 October 1913, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[l'Elt I'IiESS ASSOCIATION.] AJ) VEA'T U RU U S V ( ) Y ACi E. Auckland, This Day. The steamer Atua arrived from the islands late last night. She brought the Jiuii story ol the wreck at Jarvis Island of the American barquentiue Amaranth, the crew ol which reached Samoa on September i-ith in two small sailing boats, having covered 1140 miles. They had a' chart, chronometer, and sextant, but the food taken with them, from the wreck was quite exhausted. The Amaranth struck the rocks at Jarvis Island, and in two hours' was a total wreck. The crew took to the boats at .1.0.40 p.m., and stood by ail night, the vessel having gone to pieces. They landed next oriitng, when they waded through the surf to the forward part of the vessel, which had washed on tu the outlying rocks, and obtained canned provisions. j\o water could be obtained. Aext day the crew left the island, in the hazardous attempt . by which they reached Samoa. One boat contained the captain, his wife and child, the second mate, three seamen, and the cabin boy; the other boat held the mate and live seamen. . Both kept company till noon on the second day, when it was agreed thai the captain, having the faster boat, should push ahead with all speed, as this might moan the safety of all hands. On the seventh and eighth day out the mate's boat encountered heavy rain, which tilled the waler casks and probably saved their lives. Apia was reached just in time, as both provisions and water had given out. The captain's boat had a similar expenience, and reached Pago Pago the same day. The captain's son, eighteen months' old, stood the voyage better than anyone. Mrs "Nielson, the captain's wife, came through the ordeal remarkably. A PATIENT'S DEATH. Napier, This Day. An inquest was held at the Hospital concerning the death of Charles Crescent Sanders, single,

aged 48. Evidence showed that deceased had been suffering from pneumonia and pleurisy, and suddenly became delirious. Evading the nurse he jumped through a window, cutting himself badly, and died shortly after being got back to bed. The coroner found that death was due to pneumonia, accelerated by shock, no blame being attachable to the staff.

REFORM IN CAMERA. Wellington, This Day. The annual conference of the New Zealand Political Reform League commenced here to-day. The proceedings are not open fo tlij press. MR G. B. NICHOLS SI'CCTJMBS. Christchurch, October '■>. Mr G. B. Nichols, the No-license organiser, who was injured in the motor cycle collision with a tram, In:-1 night; died this afternoon. An inquest was opened ana was adjourned till to-morrow.