SHIP'S NEWSPAPER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 23 September 1941, Page 4

SHIP'S NEWSPAPER

THE “WHITBY TIMES 'KOI)I < I I) IX KIM. VOYAGE Oi:T TOPIC S or A ( IMI lIV AGO One (<f Ihe ways in which the Nelson •: | i(-i lit iim mi'll employed thoir lei: ore c (hi tin? w ;iy nut to New Zealand a emuied years aj'o v/a:. bv producing lew .paper:;. Aboard th" Whitby. ■ ip'ain Wakefield':: ship, there wore v.o pa pci . the ‘Whitby Times and ioiierai Advertiser” and the "Hand in land and Port Nelson Herald," the atter published by the labourers on the .hip. Though yellowed by aye, with he ink faded by the passage of years md 'perhaps) by contact with salt ■valor, a number of the "Times" dated Saturday, July 17. 1841. in the possesion of IJr F. A Belt, : hows what the tom were thinking as their ship sped m her voyage through the Indian Jcean. NEWS OK THE DAY Its six pages of foolscap size are written in an impeccable hand with a neatly printed title and a Latin motto after the fashion of those days. Front page news includes an article on the : extant, complete with diagrams, which , makes it look like a page out of a Geometry book. Steam navigation in New Zealand i also dealt with, the writer discussing the relative merits of • two methods of establishing steam navigation in New Zealand: sending out ’ the ships completed or taking the 1 machinery out and assembling it in the s Colony. Letter:; to the Editors received goner, ous pace. One correspondent invited - them to give an opinion on the argument which had taken place at l table: that we are all born with the - same talents. A somewhat tart footnote s by the Editors confessed that they had become quite tired of the argument; m any ease the answer seemed so solf--1 evident as not to admit of two opinions. V Another correspondent put forward the ' claims of a Mechanics Institute. Among 1 the advertisements was ‘as far as cau be deciphered) notice of an auction sale 1 iof effects particularly useful for emii:*it.\ In the "Do::;' tic Intelligence" column ' a report of the sale. Appar- • cntly budding v. a - .ck at first but ■ livened up afterwards, csj>ecially for strong thread, razors, knives, dressing ■ cases and Scotch plaids:. In this column jdolphins. Cape pigeons and albatrosses which followed the boat. A somewhat cryptic remark suggests tha some of powder and shot on them—apparently with little result. ROUGH SEAS Winter had set in at the time and the passage was often a very rough one. As the small ship pitched and tossed a certain Mr Wilkinson was saved from a “watery grave" only by ii S agility “Though we cannot see the top- of the wave.- through the cuddy skylight." reports the “Times, - " ‘‘it ha* nevertheless been very rough during editorial bowels have been greatly saying is. but with the pitching and rolling of the old wretch of a ship.” WAGERS An obituary notice appears—that of Captain Wakefield's dog. Don. who jumped overboard. The paper avers that there was not the slightest doubt that it was dread of the indiscriminate ‘the next word is missing) of the Young Gentleman which drove him to commit suicide. Under "Sporting Intelligence'' some of the latest wager* were reported. Bets w'ere made about tin Whitby arriving at Port Nicholson before the Will Watch. In some of these Captain Wakefield staked money. ••Mr Brunner bets Mr Arnold £1 that lie will not run 200 yards in 35 seconds tlie superiority of the Oxford mode of wrestling over that practised in Scotland. challenges Mr I Tytler to a friendly throw on reaching New Zealand lor a £1 aside.—Taken." "Mr Arnold is open to play any gentlemen half a dozen games of chess for one dollar." “Mr Arnold particularly wishes to play Mr Howard at draughts either ~ at a dollar a game or whatever stakes the friends of the respective parties I may agree on." The imprint of the paper reads: . Printed and published by the Proi prietors on board the Whitby. AH • orders and communication:: to be addressed to the Editors and left in the r j box in the cuddy."