AORERE IN ROUGH WEATHER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 48, 27 February 1911, Page 8

AORERE IN ROUGH WEATHER.

The small ooastal steamer Aorere, which arrived at Wellington this afternoon from Patea, had a very rough time on the trip clown tl.t coast. She left Patoa at 7 ft.m. on Satmday, after being detained at that port for threo days owing to rhere being too little water in the river. Immediately after clearing the river the vessel encountered a very heavy sea, which grow steadily worse. Rain camo down in torrents, and when night fell the Aorcro was in a dangerous position, as it was impossible to sco anything. She, however, steamed steadily onward all night, and when morning camo Kapiti Island was right ahead. Captain TTisk immediately ran for shelter, ' mid under the lee of ihe island the vessel remained until the gale abated. Speaking to a Poet reporter, the mate of * the vessel stated that the gale was one of tho worst in his oxperionce. Tho little vehsd wns continually awash, and to make matters worse the engines were racing, us the vessel was drawing more water forviird flian aft. When sheltering at Kapiti it was deemed advisable •to shift some of the cargo aft, and when tho Aorere again put to sea she was on a more even keel. It is not expected that the vessel sustained any .material damage.

Pitiless vandals have again been bnsy at the Public Library. Bending fingers and hacking knives have spoilt a set of pictorial annuals. One sneak-thief, bolder than tho average mean person of this category, lifted all ths contents of one volume, and left only the cover. Other numbeis have been sadly disfigured and mutilated. The pirates have wrought this havoc merely to secure pictures of no great intrinsic worth, but valuable in their proper plaos, to maintain the sequence of the illustrations. Art journals and other periodicals have also suffered from the depredations of the library's enemies. The authorities aie doing their best to ratch a sneak- j thief. It is picmissd that e::unulary ' punishment will be requested -f a con- j vktion is secured at court. '