A STORY OF THE SEA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8844, 21 June 1907, Page 2

A STORY OF THE SEA.

Tor Press Association. Auckland, June 20. Tlic Nukualofa correspondent of the Herald sends tho following graphic story of the soa, under date Juno 15th : On Sunday afternoon, May 26th, there oaula into the harbor a ship’s lifeboat, low in tho water, for she was leaking badly, containing Captain Christenson, his wife, and eight of tho crew of the Norwegian barque Albania, which had boon knocked about in a heavy gale. She had sprung a leak and had been abandoned by her crow about 100 miles to the southward of Tonga. Tho distressed voyagers wero glad to get ashore and stretch their cramped limbs after a voyage of nine days in a boat. Tho captain’s wife was so stiff from the wet, cold, paid exposure that she had to be carried from the boat and wheeled up the wharf on a track. On learning from tho captain that the two mates and the remaining tix ru embers of the crew wore still in the other ship’s boat somewhere on the ocean the Toiigan Government despatched two cutters in search, one going to the eastward end of the island of Tongaiabu and tho other to the westward. Tho eastward party, under command of Nape, a local native pilot, came across tho beat just after dark. The shipwrecked mariners left for Sydney en route to Norway by the Atua on June 2nd. Press Association.—Copyright. Stdxuy, Juno 20. The crew of the wrecked .b.irquo Albania arrived Lem Tonga by the > Atna, quite recovered i loin the effects of their long and perilous journey.