LINER ON ROCKS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1931, Page 6

LINER ON ROCKS

EIGHTY-SEVEM PASSENGERS. i United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] • $ sa • . . RIO DE JANIERO, August 8. Eighty-seven passengers 'of 'the jsouthbouml Munson liner, “Western ■World,” were on route to Rio dc Janiei’o on Saturday night, on board the vessel “General Ojsoria,” while the “Western World” awaited assistance on the rocks .where she had grounded before dawn, off Ponta Dobio, north of Santos. Her crew of 100 are said to be in no danger. The “General Osorio” took the passengers off during the aflternoon. LATER. The “Western World’s” passengers arrived late on Saturday night. The officers of the General Oserio said the Western World was in a dangerous position should a w ind come HP It is believed she will lie difficult to refloat in any case, a, ;'■

WHAT A MAN; BELIEVES. “To say that it does hot matter what a man believes so long as his life is 'sincere beyond reproach, is a contention which in any other realm would he derided as sheer nonsense,” writes Dr. J. Stuart Holden in the “Home Messenger.” “For any man’s conduct, in any particular, is the expression of hi.s belief—-whether it be in respect of ascertained natural-' laws or of Divine revelation. Sincerity, wrongly directed, may he far more deadly than .lethargy. Tn any sensible estimation belief and life can no more be separate ed than soul from body. It matters, and that tremendously, what a man belidvos. But before any of. us can make great affirmations to others we must have great convictions. There must be no dubiety, no uncertainty in our minds.” t