FRENCH STEAMER'S SAILING RECORD

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10974, 13 June 1903, Page 5

FRENCH STEAMER'S SAILING RECORD

The repoit pf Captain fiehrun, .of the .Chargeura Reu'nis steamer Etrtre Bios,, hae ,Jbecn .received) describing the ..voyage, of ' tiiit" vessel. unde,r\.s.ail" «f&r <■' losing Tver .propeNor on January* 13, while.; bound from Durban,, until her arrival , at >Rio Janeiro on March 3», .The "weather wa» bad. from the compeivcemeifit bf;|U'c^vbyag.fr on the 1 " 3rd, causing the steanier' to' pitch, and roll, '■"labouring "fearfully.,-, her., sere, v. revQlvincr ''most of tshe'.time put. of the water, jjntiL - her .'main , shaft brokq afc.the fcternpost. After consulting with tlys cftaw/ it N .wng derided to- make.' for the' coast of Soxtth. .A.t" .rica— the €^eif',4i6^vlflcVtii,i% of •obtaining' assistance from e.onie 's,te/imor of .-t»i,«' lines ' he^yeen $t." Helena ".aivd , tli.e ''Oa-pU. In fotir ,<lfe?3 only 83'inilcs hftd >been: made, and all the roptp .ajiia tany<is >''on" board liad been- used- '-up iii ' riggius , -jizry sails. 'At a" further consjaltation it was' decided to abantfdil' the idea of reachinfC the coast of South Africa-; and to make for Brazil; tlie '* south-easterly winds bein^ favourable. The Entire Rios icept on her w^y .without incident; "avalting dbout >69 miles a day, down to Febrnnfy^9, when she sighted tw» • spiling "ships; .one'^of which, an - English •threc«master, l)o\iiid •/ofliive'tpeQl, the name of which. coulU 'not'be diaiinsruishedj bore- «lQ>v?i ftnd eanio with,hi. speaking distance. Heri captain ;of- . feted, provisions, but these' were riot, required, ti,nd pronusod^ to report the situation of the Kntro Rios to-.-UTiy steamer J»u : 'might" meet. On February "23 nndther sailing: ship was sighted at a distance.' ■On the 26th a steamer, the Cambria, of Whitby, froni Buenos Ayrea •ta Str Vinteßt. ' crtmo in sisfht, and in answer tosignalft' from the Eatre Rioa came alongside 1 , and " t"ojok charge of • a letter.' On "t)^ 28th the ' ' land of Cape. Frio was- »t»htedv pnd'thc' 5-nglish steamer Blan ©field, of- -Ldnddn, passed ncac,'- and offered to take the Entre , R-ios in tnw. .but, as tlie wef iher \vi\b flrie, Captain, lifbcim dcoUnpcL^On the foil-.w- - inef day-, a' mate and fivn ; men in a bout , -ore . s-'ut ,to. tho. eeinaphorff «&b- C»pp '. $1 igra. , to make known -the sit^ifltion o^ tlio steamr'-. Information .was sent £o 7?io. "On. March, 2 tb" Comnany's K*ea.w««.v 'Carolina came- out with a' tug, and- after some cl\^lc'-H(f8 -^-r +-h« lm>.ifetw'» tnwroppß, fhp Entro'Rioß \yas moored "the neit day at her usual berth at Rio Janeiro, - VV V V r ,^i • — — - — » — _ , For Children's Hiking Consrh at.oiglrt take AVdoda' Great Peppermint Cutei 3/6 »»d2W. . % • -, . , ' '■> A lv»^le v ia ' not a necessity.' rte!ther>is the telephone, nor the tel^ejaph. not the train j- but it is nusrhty convenient when von.wfiiit'to "gob«thpre\qui,' v k."^ So see that' von b.uv <■ fhe ', BEST-^ 1 RtfBOE - WIIIT- ' \VORtif.— (Advt.)