MAORI'S ROUGH TRIP.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 162, 6 July 1918, Page 5

MAORI'S ROUGH TRIP.

The officers of the Maori on Tuesday morning, on the vessel's arrival at Lyttelton, stated that the previous night's i trip was the worst the ferry steamer had j experienced for five years. It will cer- j tarnly be a memorable trip to a" party ; v of four ladies, and to the passengers also j of the top deck cabins, who were startled at 12.45 a.m. by cries of "An explosion! An explosion!" The four lady passengers,/apparently, startled by -the-sound of'smashing' crockery underneath them, arid the crash of deck seats overhead, which followed a particular! v had list of the ship, rushed upstairs panic-stricken. Two of them later ex- I plained that what did happen .that an elderly lady -was first to give the , alarm; whereupon all four endeavoured to don lifebelts, but -without effect. .The" then rushed upstairs, lifebelts in h*v* . n"d clad'in nightdresses o'nly. And vet the oiilv consolation to their distressful cries came froth: the proverbial Scotsman—an A.B. on the shiPr-'T^" l " . • - ' -goodness sake get to your beds !