LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19668, 11 July 1929, Page 14

LYTTELTON NEWS.

Miniature Bine Club. Last week the B grade team fired a match against the ladies, and won by 493 points to 483. Highest scorers were: M. Scheukel 65, O. Ritchie 63. J. Wyatt 63, Mrs Anderson 64. Mies N. Burhery 64. In the senior championship on Saturday the team gained the prise for the beet scoro for president teams. On Monday the team met and defeated a team from the Marist Old Boys' Ciub in the winter tournament. B»st scorers for Lyttelton were: E. Corkin 68, and W. Taylor and E. Whitford 67 each. To-morrow the club vrjl! hold handicap shoots for trophies. Train Accommodation. A complaint has been made of the insufficiency of second-class accommodation en the train which leaveE Lyttelton at 6.20 p.m. An inspection and enquiries made show that the train is invariably comprised of three cars, a first-class, second-class, and a com bined first and second smoking car. A large number of night-school students of both s-jses travel to Christchurch by this train. ss well as theatre patrons, and the secondclass car is usually full when the train leaves Lyttelton. Many students and other passengers board the train at intervening stations, so that the train usuallv arrives at Christchurch with_ many second-class passengers standing, whilst others use the firstclass car. The trouble is a long-standing one. and would be obviated hj the use of an extra carriage.

STORMY PASSAGE.

♦ TRAMP STEAMER SEVERELY BUFFETED. [THE PRESS Special Serrlee ] AUCKLAND, July 10. The steamer King Gruffydd arrived here from Antwerp this morning after a particularly rough trip. In the Atlantic and Pacific the vessel met a succession of gales which prolonged the vovapo to 69 days. Last Sunday the King Gruffydd was struck by a sea that shook her to the keel. For five days the had been sturdily standing up to a storm. There had been occasional lulls and everyone thought an improvement was coming at noon on Saturday. That night, however, all hopes vanished. Everyone was roughly awakened about 3.30 a.m. by a thundering roar that sent pictures and cabin furniture in confusion on the floor. To clutch for the of the bunk was each man's first impulse in the darkness. A mountainous sea washed right over. Up on the boat deck it curled ominously and the man on the bridge was deluged wtih spray. Water poured down the engine-room skylights, flooded the engine-room and gave a shower bath to the men below An apprentice in the bathroom was preparing to get undressed and was dismaved to see the flood Dour through the port hole. Pinned like a rat in a trap he was washed off his feet. Three cabins were flooded and their contents strewn about, tooth paste, soap, shoes, ties, tobacco, and other personal prooerty being left in a dump on the floor Those fared best who rescued articles before they were reached by the flood. Sunday's storm was t'iA climax of five davs in which the steamer was at times "rose under." A fortnight previously the King Gruffydd bad received such a buffetine on her foc'sle head that the portholes of the firemen's quarters were washed in. "Wooden plugs were to be seen there when the vessl arrived this morning.