MAWSON'S EXPEDITION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 187, 7 August 1913, Page 5

MAWSON'S EXPEDITION.

•d -c MAOQUAIUE ISLAND PARTY, •" RUNNING SHORT OF STORES. y «- SYDNEY, August 0. The Inhabitants of Mncqunrio Island, io comprising ilvo membors of Dr. Mawson's is expedition to the Antarctic, and eight t men employed by a firm to boll down penguins for oil, have sent a wireless it rot-singe that the ketch Rachacl Cohen, ii which railed from Hobnrt on Juno 1) with store* for the Island, has not arrived!— "Our stores nro Almost exhausted. Our position In grave, unless tha Rnchne] Cohen arrives shortly," Tim aft-rotary of the Mawson expedition state*, however, Hint nnliual Ufa nnd li-li are abundant, nnd auggosts thnt, even though tha Rhclirol Cohen may bo sufc, a warship ahoultl bo dispatched to the relief of the (Blunders, A wiroloM incssago received to-dny from Dr, Mawaon, in Addle Land, states that two tup lengths of tho wireless innst wore blown down by iv hiirrlcano on Juno n, Tho work of repairing this has boon delayed by vjolont weather, All tiio parly ? If well and In good spirits. I INVERCARCIILL, thl» day, The Unrhi'l Cohen, bound for tho Mac- ' rpi.-irricii, waa at Half Moon Bay, Blownrt I Island, yesterday afternoon, nnd reported all well. Tho achooncr, which was do- ' 1,-!iii--d by rough wontltor, proceeded on V her voyage.