A PASSENGER'S LETTER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7237, 25 October 1901, Page 3

A PASSENGER'S LETTER.

LETTER. [I'kr Press AssoorATioN.l DUNEDIN, Oct. 25. A iw-M^ngev liy the Mukoia (Mr Si?'?-:1---d'on, of st«k«s in a lel'tor hie

had wrrU:n for his wife : "We are un our V'iiy hack to New Zealand, with tire Moivowai in, low. tt.*. K-Jniu has just come nut of Pre.seivatio-u Inlet, and is alongside us*. The vnh is choppy, hut wj «ue got ting vn well. The Monowai had «■ lot <if sail on when she was drifting abut, ami the sails are now doing good service. On Tuesday night., shiri'i-tly atter .seven, when out from tire ' Bluff * 330 milfs, in hit. 44deg 48min S., and long. 163cli?g 6imin E. i;i:r look-out re ported a vessel on tlm*- right, --towards New Zealand. Shortly after a/ rude? t v.cut up from ifho direction indicated. It was nuitlly discernible. Tile ekippnr immediately t^nt- up a rocket iraTeply, which was an.swJicd. \\ c liven turned on varied cr.lwned lights, and so did the ve-s-el in di-slro:*. We steered rapidly, towaitfe her, and Hie proved to bo ihi Monowaii. We were yjon in hailing distance. The niglut was bright, moonlight. Had it nut hcs:)> for the delay caiu-ed by the log we should prcbabiy kivc missrd each other. We were- off our track about 30Jeg at the time of picking her up. We grit alongside at a quarter lc tew. p.m. The rejoicing on board the Monowai was tremendous. Everyone was pinging ' P raise God, from Whom all hle^jivg.:! flow. 1 We learned that the vessel had two blades c.f her propeller broken, and the ' buss' partly. .She was perfectly helpless. Tlie Moncwai was? eighty-seven milts out of "her course."