A Wild Scene.

Both her cables had parted, and she was trusting to a single hawser to save her from following the Ben Venue, which had already gone ashore. When the Ben Venue's two cables had parted her crew abandoned her and went aboard the City of Perth, after which the Ben Venue was driven rapidly ashore and became a total wreck. As the City's predicament grew more desperate the watchers on shore saw her crew and the men off the Ben Venue put off in the boats. Would they live through those awful breakers? It was at this critical moment that Philip Bradley, a Timaru waterman, pluckily got a volunteer crew together, put off to the rescue of the apparently helpless boats, and stoodpage 130 by them until they were safe inside the breakwater.