SCHOONER'S ROUGH VOYAGE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 256, 22 July 1908, Page 8

SCHOONER'S ROUGH VOYAGE.

' " A TERRIBLE SQUALL, 1 (pi TELHOBArH—pniiss association.) . . '~; Christchurch, July 21. 1 After a lbng. passage of ten days from Kaiiara, tho auxiliary screw schooner Huia ar- 1 •ived .at-L'ytteltoir'earl.y"tliis morning. It 1 v'as"thought' tliat.'th'fc'Hiiia'ivould be shelterng .in:. tho'Straits during''tho heavy gale's ) asti.'w.qgk, but Captain M'Kcnzio stated tha.t •] le was.'.at .sea-the '.wliolo time, and tho' ves- ; i ;ol had: a very r-rough • handling . while ;sho vas'battling about in tho high-seas between ( iVaipapa Point and, Kaikoura. The Huia 1 eft ~ |iaipara: o nVS aturday; July 11, in. com- i lany with the,, schooner Xily and the brigan- ' ;inci.-'Aiutapu'.''. ! Fno "weather and fair winds r )rpnght. thd';msels 'dot»M,;tho coast in'com- r lany .as far', as' tho "Brothers, which was 1 lassed. at' midnight on, Monday,: July 13. s Sarly.','' iiest';"morning tlio"" Aratapu parted ♦ :ompany :with the Huia and .the Lily, and f vent into, Wollington, where sho arrived the ! lame afternoon..'''Tho'Huia lost sight of tho 1 jily tho isaipe. day, ;and,iw,hen off Waipapa ?oint experienced . a -southerly wind which ? asted' throughout' ■ Wednesday. . On Tliurs- J lay: morning a light': northerly wind came iway and lasted',for a few .hours, tho .Huia f icing to tlip,southward .of Kaikoura. In tho ] i.fternoon' a, terrific squall came away fr'om f iie'' southward and struck tho Huia] blow- j ng the foresail'clean away. Heavy rain'and c lail accompanied tho squall, aiid a big sea ( ;ot.up.'' : It was thought that the squall c vould passi bff,'< biit-'tho''wind freshened all « light until it was blowing a heavy gale with 'j i high sea running. .Having got so far down ' ;ho coast, Captain M'lConzio kept tlio'vessel ' jattling'against tlio gale,'but she made no c irbgrcss' against' it, arid, scarcely hold her J iwn: ■ The'heavy 'weather continued until ' t 3iindayi.it-being-bitterly cold with frequent i •am arid , hail-squalls, making matters exxemoly uncomfortablo for "all ou board. On Sunday last the 1 gale .moderated and yestcr- ' lay the wind changed to',the northward and i irought • the-vessel > down 'the • coast. |