AURORA'S QUEST.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17396, 6 February 1917, Page 5

AURORA'S QUEST.

£HE MAROONED EXPLORERS

PEVm MEMBERS OF PARTY SAFE THREE DEAIX CAPTAIN MACKINTOSH LOST IN BLIZZARD. [P*« P*»»S AssOCIATIOX.] WELLINGTON, February 5. I A message of nearly two hundred words lias been received from Captain Davis, of tho Aurora, but it is in a code which cannot bo deciphered here. j Tho message has gone to Australia, inhere the key word is held, and the (contents will not be available till the \ Js.ey can be obtained from Melbourne. The Aurora has also been communicatee! with asking .for a translation, ' but the signals are very faint in the daytime. ■ . LATER. I Tho wireless message from Captain Davis reads as follows: — " Aurora arrived ati Cape Evans all ■ well.on January 10, and relieved tho seven surviving members of tho fcihackleton expedition, namely: A. STEVENS, M.A., Be, geolo- * gist and chief of Hie scientific staff. „ , ; ERNEST JOYCE, in charge of the J. I?COPE, 8.A., M. 8., Cambridge, surgeon. _ H. E. WILD (brother of Frank Wild, with the main party), in charge of stores. R. W. RICHARDS, of Ballarat, physicist. IRVINE 0. GAZE, of Melbourne. commissariat officer. A. KEITH JACK, M.Sc, of Brighten, Victoria, physicist and assistant biologist. "The3o members were found a.'l well. , . "I regret to report that during the second' year of the expedition the Rev A. P. Spencer-Smith, chaplain and photographer, died of scurvey on the Barrier on March 9, 1916. "Captain iEneac A. Mackintosh, commanding iho party, and V. G. Hayward, secretary, perished on May 8, 1916, being overtaken by a blizzard which broke up the sea ice over which they were attempting to' cross from Hut" point to Cape Evans." ' Tho Aurora left M'Murdo Sounl on January 19. and should arrive at Wellington aboiiS Februarv 10. . The next of kin of the Rev A. P. Spencer-Smith is his mother, who resides at 51, Palace Street, Westminster London. Captain Mackintosh's wile resides at Bedford, England, -nd V. GHayward's mother a'i Ecklinville, Connaught Road, Harlesden, London.