A Stormy Passage.
Kchoouer's Eowgli ExpentMiecs. Captafn ami Male Incapacitates! (i'cr IVow Association.) CHRISTCHUROH, May 2«. Wtlh tocn Mink, bulwarks broken and (showing big gaping holes, the captain ill and tin? mate disabled, the schooner Joseph Sims arrived nt Lyttelton tins afternoon. after a terrible mssnge of eight days from Havelock, For bur days the vessel was battling in the «»me heavy southerly gale along the coast which caused the 'larawerato take tbirty-iwo houru on the passage from Wellington to Lyttellon. During the worst oi the gale the schooner drifted for sixty hours, with the skipper lying dfltrioufdy ill in his bunk, and the mate disabled by a fearful gash on the head, after being thrown against a bulwark by a huge wave which crashed on board hist. Tuesday, The unite was smi-conscious with the wound, when the captain ruse irom his tuck bed to dress the injury, and staggered on deck to take charge of the vessel. ■ --
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8101, 30 May 1906, Page 6
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158A Stormy Passage. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8101, 30 May 1906, Page 6
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