Perils of the Sea.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 167, 12 June 1884, Page 2

Perils of the Sea.

(united press association.) ; q -jr xk ,r- y^r/y-jF ; »r^aSD£^I,AND } JtuW'-101/-- -' To-dajj the schooner Torea -arrived from Rnrotonga* -and < branggt pnrttcii* J ; ; lars of tlje Jo*s of the French- buiqne Bonfiiie j 1 50 r&ii^sr t^flr j th4 isi&if r - named. 'It appeata^thafc^he^fta'rqriS ] left France for New Caledonia with ms i n. :. &i\> g b> ibf^iftk^ * • <fcc\ and (after an^Uiferrtful^s^'-" •reached iher destination -m" safety. .Sifter labtU%"'^ftiri?: of W fekf^ W' : tl)e^pific6 named, a -§tiv6»wa^ Mfle with balance for r rahitipsrh^re she y.xf. iQ. can\\itetQ h^r'fduicHrirge l and : lo.id haok fov-¥mime, r^tt went^wetV with, |he| vessel unt%|oo miles off Ravotonga, when hea^^esither was fallen injwith, which Tp^iFeased. in viojenc» until a strong g%le^y r 4s blovring, with r higl), c OO^ I *^^^^^^!^!^ which the vessel wat^^imng^lflf^^ very m'u jsh. Bbtt *t-wo '4&y & the ; gala' : ' continued, and upon the last day it wass foundxtiD^ Tjewel n)ad^u# a terl;i rapidly, and, as night came round, the leak-*was -increasj^j^yi b^iads v*&rp, y:) then ordered to^tfie pumps, whilst 'different | boats wei* Jgdii Jea'dy '^aiiU ' provisioned for eniei^gencics. . .After, M hours of |iard w3jrk|litlwijk found tifla^Ji the : lbak jwaa gaiuinef; and, after a i short corisult«i§tf.{«ath J !vi£> :^Ecer%p Ithe capti|io decided, for the better saifeiy o^ all oSJ^o^rdiliovabandon-tfii ship and lakk -to' lhe"\6ats. ''iiiis wa,s tspeedily iddne, and on May 31st $yf'o of thgse -boa'i « in^nqgetj to i*paeft Barotonga, contjiinihg Uie master of ; the vessel and his wife, and 10 of the crew. The :. other, boat was at that time,- missing, it having beon ' lost' sight of during- the second night afteiv leaving the abandoned^ barque: Tt was not until four days after this that the two, boakts v nonied managed to reach Rarotonga. Littjo apprehension was felt at Barotoriga for the "safety of the third boat, and. it was conJi» , v . dently oxpeoted that ill had been ; aslo • ; to reach one of/4 hot; heighboring ; islands, as it was a s^iunph .. boat, and . under the charge of an able officer. The day after the :arrjval fif-tjid (two . ; boats named above, the brigantine Oamaru reached ,j^rotqn^a # and her, - master^reported .that .tlje" jbafqne, was , seen by him ,)jn the/ -18^ and[ ithab ■ ■ she was then a) most full of. water, and npparently on the point of found«ring The captain and his crew intended to proceed on to Tahiti, and thence on home to France by the first oppor- i , tunity.