TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10593, 24 October 1910, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(Pes Press Association .) - ; Bluff, October 24.. : r ijjjygd,—Ainokura, from Fort. Chal-i "•jjoana, from Duuedin ; Ulimaroayf 1 1 1 ** i JJ ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE. •• jpjit Press Association.) - Christchurch, October 23. n. steamer Stratliclyde, which left L'tle on September 16 witli a cargo > nl for South America, arrived at -)t o u to-dav. having been adrift • kit weeks with a broken rudder. .Tana-red to crawl back to the New &d coast with the aid of a- jury' Christchurch, October 24; h Stratliclvde, whicli was sighted , Wtelton Heads on Saturday night: "not under control' signal, i Jeivcastle on September 16 tor twl Chili, with 6000 tons of coal, -dav after she sailed .into in weather. seas breaking constantly passed through Cook .Strait on -fflbcr 22. and next day a soutnQe overtook her, lashing her with lad sleet and sending huge green ji-erher. The lifeboats were lifted, ■i-tho chocks and the.rails dam-] 'i Oil was freely, used'but the pajrew worse ana worse', and on li i£\ of September 27 the vessel tresi a hurricane. . ■■ . fefav the gale moderated, but 1 kic ship was put on her-course.; aa it- was found she would not ire licr holm. An examination slid that tho rudder stock was. tkrisht through the trunk, anil »&pvra.s now uncontrollable and tlie !i ranged her broken rudder about iijreat violence. She went .ahead 4 i hip coil of rope being put, sfeird and towed with a stout cable isesdy her. Tho wind- again nisi to a hurricane, and oil had to ®rted to. This calmed the waters irellonsly and all hands set to work sk a jury rudder. On the a.fteriaotOctober 1, the steamer shipped' UEormous sea, which ripped a tariiin from one of the hatches,- ■ stove i portion of tho cover, and. swept sell the deckhouse cabins and storeafmhat the men were up to their is in water. Thus she worked slow;suthtvards, but on October' 3 the 3'iw was so bad that the stern drag i»be cut-adrift. A big sea;, sweep- ? the decks tore the covers of the am pipes, and twisted the, .ironwork !iy. With the object of trying, t° dnorthwards a jib and staysail, were isd. but the wind blew the jib away Kit at once. - - • ; -

Cn October .5 a jury rudder was gotstern and rigged, bnt as another •v gale was encountered the rudder - be abandoned. A second rudmade and lasted four days, the ifinally smashing it. ' •• t-' : fc weather finally moderated, and. itlie assistance of a third; jury rudJ ihe vessel made, some progress.. 'Oil the. ship was 43 miles from. Cape. &r, and on Saturday shc .madc her f*wn tile ciia.st- to Lybttleon.,