THE STAR OF CANADA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1486, 8 July 1912, Page 9

THE STAR OF CANADA.

THE CREW, THE CARGO, AND THE VESSEL. , i (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) 1 Gisborne, July 1. Some indignation was expressed locally on Saturday at the Tyser Company's attitude in regard to taking tho seamen from the stranded Star of Canada back to England. Many of tho crew are in necessitous circumstances. Most of them obtained an advance (in leaving Home, and half-pay has been going to their families, so that they had very little to draw, when their employment terminated with the wreck of tho vessel. Tho men aro indisposed to look for charity, but some of them are absolutely stranded, and they are being kept at their boardinghbuses only by tho good nature of tho proprietors, who havo not the heart to turn tho men out. A subscription list on their behalf was opened, but late on Saturday a telegram was received by the Collector of Customs from the Marino Department, authorising him to send tho sailors to Wellington, where ships will be found for them. Some of tho men go south by tho Mokoia to-night. The ; position on tho stranded vessel appears to' be daily growing more serious. At high'tide to-day sho was drawing Hi feet aft, while her nose was under water, and some 30 feet of tho forward deck was awash. •■ Divers are busily engaged in trying to locate tho damage. Tho lightering of cargo has been practically completed, and it is expected that this evening will see tho Star of Canada an empty ship as far as cargo is concerned. No official information as to abandonment can be'obtained, but Captain Plunketfc, of the London Salvage Association, is in chargo of operations on board tho vessel.i It is persistently announced that the Union Steam_ Ship Company has bought *the WTeck as it lies.