CAUGHT IN A HURRICANE.
[UNITED PRES3 ASSOCIATION.]
Port Chalmers, November 30. The barquentine Jasper, Captain Stannard, 38 days from Mauritius, with a cargo of sugar and aloe fibre. On November 4th she encountered a fearful hurricane from the south-west, which blew several sails to pieces and did other damage. A sea broke on board, hurling Captain Stannard across the decks against the starboard bulwark, and seriously bruising his left leg, from the effects of which he has not yet recovered, and at 9 a.m. of the sth, another sea broke on board, and washed MrHaughton the mate overboard. Thn ship was brought to the wind and every effort made to save him, but without avail. So violent was the storm that fears were entertained that the vessel would founder. Oil bagß were put out to windward and proved of great assistance, and the ship ran under the lee of St. Paul's Islands for shelter.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5049, 1 December 1884, Page 2
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