A MEMORABLE VOYAGE AT SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 71, 12 April 1901, Page 2

A MEMORABLE VOYAGE AT SEA.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. | CHRISTCHURUU, April 11. The voyage of the barque Inverclyde from Mauritius to Lyttelton, was made memorable by sickness, accident, urd deith. Oa Fabruary 22ud the vess >1 left Port Louis with two of her crew sick with Maari,tiii", or malarial fever. The disease apre id rapidly till half a doMB of the tnoD were laid down at one time. They recovered, but as they became better others of thi crew wara stricken down, till at length twelve of the men had taken the disease. The worst was that when apparently recovering they had relapses, and seme men two and three. In only one ease, however, did death ensue, the victim b?ing an A.B. named Simuel OouliDgn, agad 24, who died on Friday, A.pril sth. Bother more than a week before CouliDgs death an accident of a remarkable kind huppened. An apprentice, Francis Morrison, while oa the main royal yard, assisting to loose rail, fell ta the d- ck, a distance, of 170 feet. In his dt-scent liq broke sixteen ratlines of the m&in rigging, bis body cutting though them in suc.'essiou as he fell. They dosbtkss broke force of his fall and saved his life. Ha alighte'l aa a coil and lay insensible, his head beiug ojve.ed wihh blood. He remained unconscious for tlirei da} s bu"-, wonderful to re'aie, broke no bones and sustained no internal injuries. He tecaived feveral severe bruites on his neck and body and soma terrible cuts oa hu head,