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* THE AURORA RETURNING.
THREE OF SHACKLETON EX-
PEDITION DEAD
(Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, Feb. 5
A wireless message from Captain Davis, of the Aurora, reads as follows: The Aurora arrived at Cape Evans all "well on .January 10, and relieved seven surviving members of the Shackioton expedition, namely, Stevens, Joyce, Cope, Wild, Richards, Gage and Jack, who were found all welt. I regret to report that during the second year of the expedition A.v P. Spencer Smith died of scurvy on the Barrier on (March 9th 1916. Captain Mackintosh and V. G. Hayward perished on May 8, 1916, being overtaken by a blizzard,! which liroke up the sea ice over which they were attempting to cross from Hut Point to Cape Evans. The Aurora left jVlcMurdo Sound, on January 19th, and should arrive at Wellington about 'the 10th Ftbruary.
' " Next-of-km of the deceased are os follows: Mrs Smith, mother 51 Palace St., Westminster, London; Mackintosh -r-wife (Ethel Indsns), Bedford. Eng■laiid; Hay ward— mother, ■■. "Ecklimville," Connaught ltd.,: "Harles'don, London.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 6 February 1917, Page 6
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