STORMY PASSAGE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10451, 10 May 1910, Page 2

STORMY PASSAGE.

[By Electric Tklegi:aph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Peceived May !). at 3.15 p.m. diioy, May 9. The Norwegian sliip Italia, wheat - ]:-f {i-ii, from Smith Australia to the . English Channel, put in here iri distress. She encountered a terrific storm 300 miles son! Li-cast of Tasmania on April 23rd. and was thrown on her beam ends. The crew took to the rigging, while.enormous seas pounded the vessel furiously. Everything moveable was swept'away, and the seas threatened to engulf her. The sea flooded the after-part of the vessel, but it is believed it did not get at tho cargo. All night the crew china; to the rigging, and at daylight the crisis came, when a mountainous sea curled down on the vessel and. broke over her as high as the main yard. It washed right over the crew on the rigging, but the men came through safely. The. boats were washed away. After this the weather moderated. The ves-