Wild Weather At

Nauru

Nauru, Dec. 23.

fPHE westerly gale, which comes to JL us almost regularly every De cember, this year forced seven phosphate ships to lie off the Island for varying periods—in some cases, the wait for calmer weather lasted for weeks The vessels were Triadic, Trienza, Vesteroy, Edenbank, Vilja, Fernmore, an d Earl Bedford, with an average tonnage of 7,000.

With abatement of weather on December 22, loading was com menced, although one of the moor ing buoys has been washed ashore by the westerly. While manoeuvr ing, one of the ships’ hands fell into the wild seas, but was eventually rescued.