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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12769, 10 February 1910, Page 4

The vicar of Stone Easton, in welcoming the Bishop of Wells, on the occasion of Ms visitation, remarked j that for many years he had been allowed to work the parish on an income of 6}d a day. A wonderful story .of escape from shipwreck was told when the West Indian mail steamer Port Kingston arrived at Bristol with the survivors from- two- vessels wrecked. off. Jamaica coast during the recent hurricane. One was a Norwegian sailing ship, the Athena. After she had. broken up . nine of the crew clung ■. to a rock stand only 4ft above water and 4ft in length. The seas washed high over them, and, to make their plight worse one of their number had his leg disabled. Yet for 20 hours those men clung on, two of them holding the helpless man on their shoulders until some fishermen at the risk of their livea respued them. The second mate had an even more miraculous escape. I With two bundles of wood under his J arm, he was the plaything of the waves, which tossed him between two pinnacles of rock, where he. became jam'mej], There floated. to him six cases of prepared oatmeal, a tin of mustard, and a cask of water. With j a nail ho opened them, and lived upon the oatmeal, mustard, and water for ; si? days until he, too, was sighted < and saved. The other crew was that of the Liverpool barque Carpasian. ] They got to land in their lifeboats. ...--.. . . . ' ■ ." t