FROM THE “STAR” SIXTY YEARS AGO.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18630, 6 December 1928, Page 8

FROM THE “STAR” SIXTY YEARS AGO.

ADVERTISEMENTS AND NEWS OF DEC. 7, 1868. BIRTH. Warren.—December 5, at Salt’s Gully, Lyttelton, the wife of Captain Charles Warren, of a daughter. st :: Four-Oared Racing Gig.—The barque John Knox has brought for the TradesJ Club a racing boat which measures 45 feet in length. The model was highly spoken of in Sydney. Si Si »*» VARIETIES. The Lover’s Revenge—Marriage. Something always on hand—Your thumb. Heavy charge of the Light Brigade— Gas hills. An exchange says rents are insupportable. But then the landlords find no difficulty in keeping them up. n si x The Chatham Island Natives.— Rumours having for some time been in circulation as to the natives formerly resident in the Chatham Islands having recently left those islands with a view of joining the rebels, and 'having taken with them a considerable quantity of arms and ammunition, we have been requested by the Government to publish the following facts: —The resident natives left Chatham Islands on the 12th November, in the Colling wood, and have arrived at New Plymouth; total numbers, males 67, females 43, children 38, in all 148. Captain Thomas, Resident Magistrate, with their consent, kept their arms and ammunition to be sent to the Government to be dealt with as the latter choose. They are not going to join the rebels, but to live with their relatives who emigrated last year, and are living peaceably near the Waitara. The Superintendent of Taranaki reports that he is glad of their arrival, as it will strengthen the defence of Taranaki towards the North. News from the North continues satisfactory. st si st Drifted to Sea.—We are glad to say that the missing man, Thomas White, has returned. We are indebted to Captain M’Lean for the following particulars:—lt appears that on Thursday afternoon White was unmooring Mr Hay’s whaleboat, and as he poled her in to get the oars, etc., so as to ferry over to Holmes Bay for a cargo, a south-west puff caught the boat and carried it off shore. He tried to make Holmes point, but when only three boats’ lengths off the poiqt the wind drew off the hills and carried him into the middle of the bay, the boat drifting straight out. At 10 p.m. he spoke the Courier, ketch, and told them he was adrift without oars, anchor, or sails; they must have thought he was jesting for they held on their course and paid no attention to him. He cooeyed, but they still kept on; he then laid down and went to sleep for the night. On Friday morning he found himself about ten miles outside the heads. The sea being calm he got the stern sheets out and paddled the boat in two or three miles. About ten o’clock a breeze sprung up from the north-east, and he then set the stern sheets for a sail, which brought him a mile inside Pigeon Bay heads. Here he managed to get on the rocks, and hauling the boat up he slept in a cave all Friday night. He got into the boat on Saturday morning and paddled two or three miles up the bay, when he was seen by some of the inhabitants, who went off to his assistance. Fie saw the p.s. Betsy Douglas on Friday afternoon, but she was too far away to the northward for him to signal.