OVERDUE REGULUS ARRIVES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12705, 7 March 1912, Page 5

OVERDUE REGULUS ARRIVES.

"SHELTERING FROM STRONG GALE

The* anxiety which was beginning to be felt *:in| Gisborne m regard to the non-arriy^lf of the Westport Coal Com- ■ pahy's|Kegiilus was allayed last night, $ wheriy a w«*se*,* put Antpb the,; bay,'i-an'd s (it J wis' 's_Sje3lßSy^ ascertained "that she - ; was f itJae overaue steamer. ,; l ~" | __ Coal lS_in, the Regulus left her load- * "big. port on Saturday evening 'last at ■f S'.oO o'clock, arid as she arrived here * abotiit o'clook last night, the trip occupied 97£ horirs, or, a period Of about twice as long as the ordinary time' in /which it takes to make the trip between, y the two ports. Soon after leaving West-| .7 "port the vessel ran into exceptionally •*■ fieavy weather, and being unable to * pass Stephen Island, the captain decided to run for shelter to Port Hardy. This he' did, and cast anchor there x until the weather moderated somewhat. Sheltering at the same time m .Port Hardy were the. U-S.S. Co.'s Kowhai and Taviuni arid " three vessels of. the «qas.tj»l* ■•' mosquito" fleet, th^; Kennedy, Mangapapa, and Wairoa. Leaving .Port Hardy, the Regulus experienced ately rough weather through the Straits, r<ind"all;the way up the East Coast was compelled to battle m the teeth of a fairly^strpng north-east gale.