AN ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6493, 13 April 1908, Page 7

AN ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE

CHINESE WAR JUNK’S JOUENEYINGS. PRESS ASSOCIATION. c , ~ AUCKLAND, April 11. Nows of the adventurous voyage of a Chinese junk, from San Francisco to Papeete, is brought by the steamer Mananoun which arrived from Tahiti and Rarotonga last evening. The -vessel was tho Whang Ho, a Chinese war junk, which has been on exhibition along tho. Pacific Coast of tho United States. She is owned by a syndicato in San Francisco, who intended oxmbitmg her on the Eastern Coast of the blares. With this object in view a captain and crew were secured in Ran Francisco, nnd the Whang Ho was towed out of San Francisco harbour, but the captain at the Inst moment resigned ins command to the chief officer, Air R. R. Orindley. The latter proceeded on his wav. but tho junk had next to no ballast. Wind and sea took clinrgd of "her, she drifted further and further from her intended course, and finally arrived off Papeete on March 12th, when she was towed into port. The crow of the Whang Ho were found in a mutinous state. Salvage was claimed and hod to be agreed to for towing tho junk into port. Captain Grindlcv is now waiting at Papeete for ir.slructions from tho owners. The Whang Ho is a very fine specimen of her class. She was’ built at Shanghai.