THE PANDORA MISSING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12616, 20 November 1911, Page 3

THE PANDORA MISSING.

• . . '-v — : — •~"~' — "•■■ . ■ i • According to a. London cablegram recently received m Sydney, keen anxiety prevails regarding the fate of the Pandora, the Australian yawl, m which Captain George D. Blythe is sailir,* round tlje, world. The Pandora left New York for. London m July, and she is now about two months' overdue. There •tro fears that she has foundered. ihe Pandora, left Sydney m August of last year on '"her cruise round the ■world, and called m at Auckland, proceeding from here, , via, Pitcairn Island, round the Horn to New York. Aboard the great Atlantic liners of the. latest pattern (says a recent message from the New York* correspondent of a London paper) the conquest of the ocean may f rem accomplished, and that there is no jsf- pc Jeft for daring seamanship. The da\ ft f the reil, /sailor are not by any meai.s over, however, when exploits like those of the hardy/ mariners; \vh<> are crossing thl- AUaiitic m tiny,,boats .this summer are being achieved. No sooner has news come to hand, that, the auxiliary yawl Sea Bird, with her crew of three, had, ayj&ved !&V> Gibraltar,, after making their 3000 milfes across , the ocean, than the sailing is announced of a 36ft jfawl, the Pandora, with her two owners, Ckp&ain* $eorge I};, Biythe and Captain Peter Ai'apakis, fdf thS other side. She is bound for London, and expects to makej'ithp'.tnp ...in [about 3Q days. Her course 1 is- laid out along the northern steamship track — a lonely one at this time of the year on account of theiceber£tf';fi But "the perils, of the Atlantic have; ''no, terrors, for the . Pandora's crew. Fotf'two years- she has; been .voyaging from, Australia; and has; a log full of adventure's' encountered on the Pacific, and round the Horn. Once m a fierce{jale she was turned, completely over,, Jaut riehted again, ;h-fer most, being torn out. She has . be&rt lying for a month in ' New York ■ harbor, repairing damage suffered on her way up the" coast. . •