SHIPWRECK AND SUFFERING.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11967, 21 June 1907, Page 3

SHIPWRECK AND SUFFERING.

Auckland, June 20. The Nakualofa correspondent of the "Herald" sends the following graphic story of the sea, under date June 15th : — On Sunday afternoon, May 26th. there came into the harbor a ship's life boat, low in the \vaj;or, for she was leaking badly. She contained Captain Christenson, his wifei and eight of the crew of tho Nor weigan barque Albania, which had been knocked about in a heavy gale, and had sprung a leak and had been abandoned by her craw about 400 miles to southward of Tonga. The j distressed voyagers were glad to get ashore, and stretch their cramped limbs after a voyage of nine days in the boat. The captain's wife was so sitff from wet. cold and exposure that she had to be carried from the bout, and wheeled up the wharf on a truok. On learning from the Captain that T two mates and the remaining six members of the crew wore still in another.of the ship's'boats'somewhere on the ocean, the Tongan Government despatched [two cutters in search, one going to the eastward end of the Island of Xongatabu, and the other to the westward. The eastward party, under the command of Nape, a local " native pilot, came across the boat just after dark. The shipwrecked manners'"! left for Sydney, en route to Norway, by the Atua OD June 2nd.