EXCITEMENT AT NEWCASTLE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11453, 19 June 1899, Page 5

EXCITEMENT AT NEWCASTLE

A TUG'S ASSISTANCE DECLINED.

Later. There was great excitement in Newcastle when the Perthshire was first sighted. The cliffs wero lined with spectators with glasses. The captain of the Perthshire informed the tug which went out tbat he required no further assistance, the .Taiune bein" sufficient. Tho Talune is' coming along dead slow so as not to make Sydney before daylight.' The vessel is being tugged by the Perthr' shire's own chain cable. It was ascertained that the shaft did not break in tho tube. The engineer endeavoured to repair it. by means of the coupling, but it was nof strong enough to? stand the strain. No further details are available tonight.

The Perthshire left Sydney, for the Bluff on Apnl 26, so that she has been at sea for some ot. uays. ihe accident occurred on April 28 hhe was seen by the Whangaroa on May 12" her position being lat 35.20 S., long. 160.10 flii • -,ua>u -the bai 'ci"c Northern Chief Sell m with her m lat. 5. S., long. 164- E -Ihe Verngc-an then came across her on the 7th mst., m id. 29.33 S., long. 165.1 E. Six days later she was taken in tow by the Talune. r„7'A i • 7 !" Ura no time in Allowing out Admiral PearsonV order to go in search ol »he missing steamer Perthshire. When the order reached Port Chalmers on Friday W noon the hulk Elinor Vernon had been towed .alongside and was coaling the cruiser, while Captain Lean had started for a run up conntiy. Ihe orders were transmitted to him without, do-ay, and the work of coalinjr was carried on so vigorously that at a late hour on I'riday night she had taken in her full bunker supply-viz.,.300 tons of Westport coal sup" Phed by he contractors, Messrs J. Mill and Co and shortly before midnight left for Aucka r w^:?. fll'--ther instructions await her. ywo • , I, iS a very P°wei' fu) vessel with engines of /500 bourse power nominal, with a speed of 19 knots an hour,