AND ADVENTUROURS TRIP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1123, 16 September 1880, Page 2

AND ADVENTUROURS TRIP.

uit:-, relates the following ~mad-FramecP a'cTFehture : — "A youth of about eightoen[ for some time in the" employ of @r. ' Macfarlane at the Bank-'.'tf&M'ew Zealand, Lyttelton, ha viug made^up. his mind to go to that gentleman, wliiris at present residing at Kaiapoi, .conceived the idea of siiliiiff round in a puiit JBft ,h>hg, with .a beam of about 3ft; '(Jin., Which Mr. Macfarlane had left in port. On Wednesday morning,' having procured a" few provisions, he took Spy,- a favorite dog, and set sail. It may here be. mentioned that he had never seen j j;he entrance -to the .Kaiapoi. river, r and I only -knew from what he was told( tfcat |he town named was situated on "a rfver to the norjjh_of Lyttltoiir During the afternoon iiejeame up off the New Briglffc tou Huteljjagd put the. boat inforshqre. Finding, a, J.-ol}ingßurf Wj.anfr'no^Wpparent.enteance to a river, he-stood out' again. . Night coming oh he put do'<vn the anchor, and as he states ' turned 'hi.' In the morning he started north again, and made Summer bar, but nearing the entrance become afraid of the breakers He stood the boat but to sea, and. ran along the coast till he came off this next bar, which proved to be the south entrance to Kaiapoi river. This he. did not fancy, and so sailed on to the north when seeing another channel, and what : appeared a flagstaff, made up his mind .to sail in for it. The boat camq easily the broken wate^r, when, a huge wave s'turned it completely over, throwing tlie [-yqutfl =w®^ia dbg- intoj.thettrougjrioi'thse^ sea. Here the dog gave hiiu '." some" Jroab.le r -but striking, out he reached the boat, which was^^dn^'iiptoerrtfosi, arid ; held on to it as "weiraTs the dog. The flood tide carried them"in a co«sld|}j:ab)e distance, au3 -reachi-pg^f^^?ftoth;eij^ vrnker*' the youfetaa.de/. up :^'min,^^ytfy a •^swim for it, and. judging from "the description given of th 6 Sp6t where the broken water ends to where He an\^Spy landed, hejmnst.have swam a gtiod half mile. He made for the fisherman's hut got some dry clothes, then went on to joiu-his master at Kaiapoi. f /