THE DRIFT OF THE WHANGAPE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1908, Page 4

THE DRIFT OF THE WHANGAPE.

HOW SHE WAS \ MI3D_B-_C____ai_B!Anr^ EL STEAMING WHEN BKSHjfi) _» < TXmjA.. * „ *_ Some fresh information __'»___ ._,'■_ S r. firmatory news o_ the drifc «T___** " Whangape. which was r___tfl-,,fr__ _*» about a fortnight in the E_4l__ the vicinity of the Fijis, w__'«*____!}* vi this morning by a " Star" re»__t_rT2_ ' Captain Robinson, of the Howard ___ B Company _ steamer Cbri_r__ 3* | % arrived to-day from S_-j_. -.;■. -.*• •/ { SW £ It was at ten o'clock oh the _j_*_ ii Jl September 30 that the ovetdW»2_i__'' ;S 5> picked up by the Totna, „____ t«S___ . into Suva the following »• taken in tow the vessel■ ■•■£»£ ____.' i ti steam. The first attempt to __^E'*. . broken shaft with ____$____ -£_5_ _£" S . unsuccessful, but a good xesnO__*__: . tuned in the next attempt, and*'___ & time of her meeting with the ' * was moving forward at the rate ____, % *~ four miles an hour. -' .: ; » The Whangape, under her plow ■_*_.. '"' ' was off an island! which lies to the ____ west of Fiji, when the Tofjua, M»i_kfc2_ D sailing from Lautoka for Sv__v. ____ ' W »> her. .-.. ;__^*.;:-- The Whangape enerahteied '• __ - weather all the while she was a&fc. M'--'5 was well on board. There was a pl___i * supply of food and other nece_rt___7 and those aboard were not any great hardship. '.:. . When the Ceatury was steaming t/,t_ v toka a few days prior to the pickinr m of the Whangape, the drifting viaSi _Z the smoke from the Century. The w_uj, gape was then to the nortn-west of Mi about twenty-five miles from the.___ The Wbangape's drift wa. in a 1 norV nor'-west direction, quite- the oppotft direction to that in which the v__i_l_ which searched for her laid their «____ When the Century left Sraifon§_S§l 6th inst., the broken tail shaft of th» Whangape had been Temoved, and it ma , expected that the new __aft=w<__dd bs pot in on the following day. . . The steamer which brings this new. the Century, it is somewhat interests* t» ■ record, is a sister ship to the long-adrift Aeon. -.■:".'"•"--