A TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3146, 20 January 1917, Page 2

A TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGE.

A steamer which lately arrived in New Zealand mot with a violent storm off the English coast just after she hail quitted port. An hour after she had sailed a warning was issued by tho British meteorological authorities that a cyclone was approaching. By that time the vessol had steamed into tho dinturbed area, and mot the full force of the cyclone. For 12 hours she battled against tho weather. Seas swept her foro and aft, washing ovorboard everything movable, including one boat that was high up on the boatdock. Two other boats wero stove in. The deck cabins on one side of the ship wero smashed, and rendered useless for weeks. Tho saloon was flooded and materially damaged. In the efforts of tho crew to make secure all movable materials, ono sailor had j an anklq fractured, another was seriously injured internally, and several more received minor injuries. After maintaining its maximum forco for 12 hours —during part of which tho barometer stood ns low as 27.50—the cyclone settled down to a strong gale, which lasted for four days. For tho remainder of the voyage ordinary weather was encountered.

Messrs McGruer, Thomson and Co.'s summer sale-hill will be issued through the iStab next Wednesday.

At the Salvation Army Hall on Thursday evening a welcome social was given to Adjutant and Mts Homo, the newly appointed officers to Foilding. The services to-morrow will ho conducted by these officers, and no doubt there will be largo congregations to extend a welcome to them.

The Bishop, of Peterborough, in his diocesan magazine, recently addressed a communication to incumbents with a view to enabling workers to obtain full rest on Sunday mornings. Complaint had been mado, he said, of the ringing of church boils an industrial areas at the*timo when Saturday night workers had retired to rest. Ho expressed the hope that the trouble might be overcome either by shortening the period of ringing or by muffling the, bells. The Bishop of Chelmsford has taken similar action in his diocese. Complaints of a similar character are not wanting in Wellington.