FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15482, 13 December 1913, Page 4

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

ARRIVAL OF GREEN JACKET.'? OVER FOUR MONTHS AT Ska. ■«' 1 j (From the Herald of December 13, i£ C ' The ship ('.roc,, Jacket, Captain Mitchell ' arrived in harbour yesterday at 2.50 p m " after a tedious passage of 121 d„v 5 f" Gjavesend, and 115 days from the Start whence she took her dcpaitur- on ;„„,,? 20, and Mghted neither land uor £ until shelved the Kan (■.,,« lha ** «». south about), this day week. at 5 J a ">- •.. On Saturday, November 14 ' at 2.30 a.m.. the .hip, then under single' reefed topsails and courses. was B JJi by a terrific bla,t, winch threw her <„, Up beam ends, causing a general feeiimj 'of consternation. K\crvtliiag «., 3 « tf « v and everything was blown aw,v. namely' three courses, tine,: topsail,-, jibs and stay' sails, the ship losing 1700 vaids 0 [ W S the mainyard was carried awav j„ the slmgs, and the foretopsail yard broke short,' off. The Green Jacket, i:otwiiiistandbe has come into port in >i..-di»able cor.dt tion, and, judging by nances, i IM been a comfortable ship. . . . There were two births and one |.yh, aid general good health prevailed. Sv ~< brought an addition to our populati -.-■ ■ : ;52 sou ] a Major Jaa. 11. Rocke, 2nd liuiUlion 18th Royal Irish, and Captain Fieri. S. Schomberg, 57th Regimcv. being anion- the passengers.