A Thrilling Adventure.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2077, 10 February 1898, Page 2

A Thrilling Adventure .

A thrilling adventure which, occurred at Island Bay during the recent storm is narrated by the New Zealand Times. A fishermaD was pursuing his avocation some distance out when he was caught by the storm, and at once pulled for the shore, but in the vicinity of some rocks j utting out from the land for some distance his frail craft capsized. He swam to one of the rocks which stood out by itself, and clambered on to it, retaining his hold on a rope attached to the boat. In this precarious position he remained for two hours, eventually losing control of the boat, which afterwards drifted ashore. The man’s predicament was viewed from the shore by many anxious eyes, and his mates launched a boat for the purposo of going out to his assistance. The sea was running so strongly over the rock to which the man was clinging, however, that his comrades were obliged to abandon the attempt. They immediately arranged another plan of campaign. Taking their lives in their hands, they clambered along the slippery rocks from the landward side, and, after an infinitude of trouble, succeeded in floating a rope out within reach of the now fastdrowning fisherman, and as he clung to it with a last despairing effort, dragged him ashore almost in extremis. It was some time before his blood circulation could be restored, and the muscles of his limbs, which wore drawn up into balls, rubbed back into their normal shape—naturally a very painful process.