THE ABANDONED OIL LAUNCH

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 61, 13 March 1906, Page 2

THE ABANDONED OIL LAUNCH

EXPERIENCE IN MARLBOROUGH

Thl ?"$° n 4 Pres^ t supplfe^ tfe sequel to. the report which appeared in our columns;on Saturday,as. to.the discovery- pi saii tabanabil4^o!lila«nclii Uur contemporary says:— • ;._A^.party of Italian fishermen5 fram Wellington^ were caught.in the storita onWednesday last whilst plying their calling near the Heads: ,l & sonzht Queen Charlotte Sound, for. shelteit moored the launch and landed. The storm increased; in luryj'and the boat broke away from her fasteiiingsl The men were now in a queer predicament the abatement of the^stdrm findi^ them without food and apparektif away from civilisation: >■& r^ter of fact, the-wanderers were; Vithin^a short distance of Mr C. IL Turner^ marched on. and on with no LcSZ tunate men, famished, weary and footsore, amyed at ; the works * of th» Pelorus Fisheries; where they recerSS ■■ from Raya^diffe the-IaSSS S2 sHaasws