FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16897, 9 July 1918, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

I-IV*;« •■■■ 'Vy \•*; • r.-v'.C.-' - SHIP RACEHORSE ARRIVES. <-YW«. —- -• ■■ ■— ■" '< ■■ „ ' >* ' . . 1 ' ■ SEVERAL GALES ON THE VOYAGE. (From tho HERALD of July 9,1868.) ' The '.ship., Racehorse, 'in command of , Captain" 1 - Seward, arrived in port at day-v-vm break yesterday, morning. Tho Race|3|C' horse 'left Gravesend on February 11, and 'on tho'l9th of tho same month encoun- % tered a heavy gate with high seas, causing !■>■ the vessel to strain heavily and ship large ~h : . quantities of . water. During this gale i mcny of the live stock were washed overf ' board. Again, on June 16 a heavy gale '■ was experienced, with a dangerous sea, the ship .-being then under close-rcofod canvas. A very heavy sea struck the ship, throwing her instantly on her beamenas, when : the maintopmast went by the board. '. Four hands were on tho foretopgallant., .yard at the time, and only managed to leave-it an instant before it followed the maintopmast. During the attempt to -secure some of -the wreck 1 eight men of- the ship's company wero disabled,>'4tld consequently the vessel was extremely short-handed. Tho passengers wees'Govrie, 'Henry T. and Eleanor Gorrie, Miss Elizabeth Bevan, Mr. Francis Henrv MacMurdo, Mr. Mid Mrs, John S. Hart,' Rev. George and Mrs. Morris, James Matilda, Edward, John, -William, Miry, Albert 0., and Francis S'ioddart, Archibald e.nd Fanny Clements, .David Turner, Alfred and Her- • bert: WilseriyEliza and John Bailey, John W.;' Phillips, William Griffiths, George Frazer, James Perry, Richard and Cor- ■ ding Parish, William Peacock, Thomas, Elizabeth, ' Adr., Eva. Arthur, Lawson, ■ James -FulliamM, E. R. Tlionnis, George, Mary,,l Adelaide, Rosa Emily Hulme, John : Brown Pa ton, Walter Scott, John Wrigley, and Thomas Jenkins,