CASTAWAYS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10778, 29 May 1911, Page 4

CASTAWAYS.

.; : A PLFCKY ENGLISHMAN. , [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] " (Per Press Association.) .Received May-28, "at 5.5 p.m. Perth, May 29. ' The Mandalay's castaways have arrived. The vessel was driven off her course by gales', and the captain ran ■ hera?hore on a sandy beach. Ward was the only Englishman on ; board, and at great risk he carried a life-line ashore, wherebr the balance of ; the crew were landed safely. They ' suffered considerable hardship on the oyeilaud journey. The Mandalay has a hole ill her bottom and the mainmast has gone. She is embedded in the sand,, and tlie s>eas are breaking over her. She is unlikely to bo refloated.