THE JOHN SAFE

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 June 1925, Page 5

THE JOHN SAFE

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(BY TKI.EGRAPH PRESS WELLINGTON. Juristic,The Tutanekai returned to. por.tNfeliis afternoon after searching the area' from which distress signals -were- «-aid -*■ bo have been seen :near MatuCU arid L Ka.piti Islands and the Brothers. No 1.1 are of a vessel; wreckage or cargo was The Arahura had stood By Titaiii Bay until 2 itmv. When' ; the Tuianeka-i arrived the Anihum proceeded on her journey.;,»to Picton and Nelson. . ...

Jt v.a.s at fi: st thought" that it might be the steamer John from which ihe distress signals came. This little vessel was coining from. -Wanganui to Wellington. The latest information, however, is thfct the John reached Picton at 1.45 this afternoon and is sheltering there. As the gale has ■ now abated she may be expected to come across the strait to- Wellington. The John left Wanganui at 7.10 on Saturday and ran into the gale. The Kohi could not Be located, Bat about 6 p.m. information was received that she was sheltering in' French Pass. The Wootton .had been sheltering at Port Underwood on Friday. - The Tvapiti, which left Wellington on Saturday for Wanganui', arrived . there this morning. The trawler Futurist, which went out on Monday morning, was seen yesterday by the Titoki and the Invercargill. The Waitempta from Newcastle was hove to for fifteen hours. Seas -.smashed the homse cabin and splintered' the end of the. bridge. The Moeraki had '-"'* a very rough voyage towards- the end, .«?■« and the passengers were relieved when pout was reached. • All vessels have now beep accounted for. JOHN HA'S ROUGH TRIP. ' BLENHEIM, June 16. With the heavy weather raging in Oonk 'Strait, • Queen Charlotte Sound has become a. regular h ail) our of refuge for small coastal craft,- among those sheltering at present being the little steamer Cygnet, the Kohi, en route front Havelock to Nelson, and the steamer John, of the Holm Line, While there are four vessels sheltering : under Cape Campbell. Three of these have been identified as the Calm, the Wootton and the Wairau. The fourth is a very .small craft, and was be-' ” lieved to be the Cygnet until that vessel turned up at Picton. The un-. identified vessel is possibly the trawler Futurist, about which some anxiety has been felt, but no definite news can be obtained. v The arrival lat Picton at 1.45 of the John, put an end to the anxious fears which ,h-ad been expressed as to her ea-fety, following on the sighting of rockets in Cook Strait- last- night-. The little vessel left Wanganui for. Weill ng.ton ait 4.10 on. Saturday in company with the Titoki and the Inver- - £ cargill, and struck the full force of the -p storm about four hours after leaving , port . ...... . The John carried -no cargo, and though Captain Harwich on arrival at : Picton was not in a communicative:: mood, he admitted that .lie had never experienced anything like the. weather encountered on Sunday arid Monday. The John made the lee of Stephen's Island on Sunday and anchored there this morning, when she again buffeted the storm *and reached Picton; ' She saw no sign of the'Titoki and the In- : vercargilll after leaving Wanganui. The R.ipa. reached Picton from Wanganui about 4 p.m. She left the. . northern port at 5 p.m. yesterday' and hugged the coast to Kapiti. Tlieri'she plugged straight across the Straits; - 'T The little vessel Kolia left Havelock;,. - for Wellington yesterday .afternoon, . but was glad to seek .shelter in Queen Charlotte Sound last night, coming in through the main entrance. She-aK tempted to leave by the Tory. channel . . to-cilay, but had to put back, and i 5.,,., lying at present off the whaling sta-. tion at Teawaiti.