THE MAROONED EXPLORERS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14145, 24 July 1916, Page 6

THE MAROONED EXPLORERS.

RELIEF SHIP FROM ENGLAND.

(Atxstralian and N.Z. Cable Association)

London, July 22

On receipt, of the New Zealand Government's cable, stating that repairs to the Aurora would occupy at least sixty days owing to labour uncertainty, the British Government decided, owing to urgent cables from Sir Ernest Shackleton, to despatch a vessel from England, though the journey from Plymouth to Elephant Island is twice the- distance from Wellington.

"The Hudson Bay Company, owners of the whaler Discovery, which was used by the 1910 expedition, thereupon lent the vessel for relief, and she ■leaves in a few daysrSlie will be towed most of the journey to save time. It is considered that the effort Sir Ernest Shackletoii is now making has little chance of success.