MISSION SCHOONER'S SENSATIONAL VOYAGE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9068, 14 April 1906, Page 5

MISSION SCHOONER'S SENSATIONAL VOYAGE.

(Received April 14, 1.2 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 13. The Catholic mission .schooner has arrived from German New Britain, after a sensational voyage. She left on February 3rd and, after being delayed for tlunee weeks by calms, ran into a succession of violent, gales, ending in a. cyclone. .She became leaky, and the ballast shifted j and she was thrown on her beam ends. Pro^sions then became scarce. After knocking about helplessly for a considerable time, the crew succeeded in righting her. Then beriberi fever broke out, the captain and the majority of the crew being stricken, down. Great difficulty was experienced in navigating the vessel to Sydney. . Betiveen shortness of provisions and ferer, the crew suffered severely, and sevaral have been removed to the hospital.