The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Morning. Tuesday, September 24, 1889. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 355, 24 September 1889, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, September 24, 1889. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth’s.

So much fuss was made over the Calliope affair that even Captain Kane himself felt that a great deal too much was being made of what was merely an act of duty. Still, when the British people set their heart on making a hero of any one they will hear of no comparison of that deed with deeds of the past. The popular enthusiasm must have its way, and though in time to come students of history may think these spasmodic outbursts of enthusiasm, and the singling out for special recognition of one act among thousands, to be a peculiarity beyond their comprehension, yet things will perhaps remain so. We may, however, place on record an incident which speaks for itself. Capt. Lusher, late of Wellington, who has for several months been engaged in trade between various Australian ports and the islands of the Pacific, in the barque Conference, narrowly escaped coming to grief a short time ago with all on board, including his own family. The vessel had had a particularly tempestuous passage from Newcastle to New Caledonia, and after discharging a cargo of coal at Noumea, had proceeded in ballast to Long Island, in the Chesterfield Group, to take in a cargo of guano for Launceston. On the 18th of June, while she lay off Long Island, with only 200 tons of guano under hatches, a terrific storm broke over the group. The barque pitched and tossed to such an extent that those on board expected some terrible calamity to occur. At last it became evident that the anchors were not holding, and that the vessel was in danger of being driven on the rocks. Captain Lusher therefore determined to imitate the tactics of H.M.S. Calliope in the now historic Samoan hurricane. Putting to sea, he was able to ride out the gale, and made for Noumea, where he temporarily replaced the ground tackle that he had lost in the storm, and returned to Long Island. Serious havoc to houses and vegetation was found to have been wrought by the gale. The Conference completed her lading, and then sailed for Launceston, but called en. voyage at Sydney (where she was reported two or three weeks ago) for the purpose of completing the equipment that had been damaged in the storm. Judging from the accounts of the adventure given by our Sydney contemporaries, Captain Lusher’s feat seems to have been quite as praiseworthy as other deeds of nautical daring of which a great deal more has been made,