EX-GOVERNOR’S ADVENTURE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2557, 19 July 1909, Page 5

EX-GOVERNOR’S ADVENTURE

SENSATIONAL EXPERIENCE ON VOYAGE HOME. IN A SHIPPING - ACCIDENT. United Press Association —Copyright. SYDNEY, July 17. Sir Harry Rawson, late Governor of New South Wales, had a sensational experience on the trip Home. He was travelling in the Canadian Pacific Company’s steamer Assiniboia, plying on the Great Lakes, a vessel of nearly 4000 tons. She was waiting in the lock with the water at the same level as Lake Superior, and 18ft above the level iof the channel below at the lower gates |of the lock. A steamer manoeuvring outside the. lower gates crashed into them. With a frightful rush, and the force of the waters of Lake Superior behind her, the Assiniboia was carried like a straw through the lock, snapping her mooring lines like threads. The whole affair lasted a couple of minutes and the Assiniboia and several other steamers grounded some distance down. The spectators said that as the Assiniboia shot down the cataract that poured out of the lock her bow pitched down the incline of prater till the stern was go high that the. propeller was clean out of the water. .Then she struck the' level below and the rush of the current swayed her over right on to he*’ beam ends, so that she took in water through the gangway.' Sir Harry Raw son, interviewed, said the .rater came down with a magnificent rush. It wa; a pretty sight. There was no panic. A couple of ladies fainted, “but they always do that, you know,” added, the admiral.