WEATHER AT HOME.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8942, 17 December 1907, Page 5

WEATHER AT HOME.

HEAVY GALES

DISASTERS AT SEA

Press Association- Klectric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Sunday. Heavy gales havo boon experienced iv Great Britain.

Iv tho Channel, according to Lloyd's report, there have been thirty minor wre ks. Continued floods iv tho Western Counties aud Thames Valley havo caused damage. Tho Thomas Lawsou, a 500-ton potroloum boat capsized wh le riding at anchor at Scilly Islands, Cornwall. Sixteen porsous wore drowned. Throe wore saved.

A heavy sea swamped a steam cutter bolonging to the torpedo gunboat Speedwell at Sheerness pier. Eight bluejackets, who were starting on Christmas loavo, wero drowuod. (Received To-day at S.bS a.m.) LONDON, Last Night. The Thomas Lawsou. which was a soveu masted schoouer, and the largest vessel of its rig in the world, declined the assistance of two lifeboats, but accepted the aid of a pilot, who, however, was drowned. The. vessel dragged her anchor and drifted close to tho Annette Rocks, where she "turned turtle."

The lifeboats returning saw tho captain clinging to the rocks, with his wrist broken.

The pilot's sou heroically swam through the breakers amid jagged mcks aud rescued the captain.