SHOCK OF A MOTHER.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1925, Page 3

SHOCK OF A MOTHER.

1-O.VDON. Sept. 22. \Vhon Mary Toanioii. a voung married woman, of T.ongtnn, Staffs, was charged at Blackpool yesterday with stealing two aprons while employ'd as a general servant, the chief eon--tanlile (Mr 11. K. Derliam) said she 'eft her husband and two children six reeks ago. and she would now know 'or the first time that one of Tier eh iI - Iren was dead. Upon hearing this (ho woman collapsed and wept bitterly. The chief constable added that sin* had been having a flighty time at Blackpool, dancing in the ballrooms instead of thinking about, her home. The woman was remanded until today. when her husband will be present.

’PLANE THAT GAN SAIL. LONDON. Sept. 17. A metal ship of the air which carries n telescopic mast and can sail on the water should engine failure force it to descend made a 000-miles aerial voyage across the North Sea yesterday irom ('openliagen to tiie Felixstowe air station. The machine, a giant t win-engined seaplane, with a single wing, has been designed bv Dr Rohrbacli, the German iceliTiieian, and limit at Copenhagen. Manufacturing rights have been acquit - - „.| for Great Britain by Messrs Beardmore and Co. The craft which, arrived vestedny is to be tested at Felixstowe I.v Air Ministry exports.

Af\ROONED ON TCE FLOE. LONDON. Sept. 17. The story of the wreck of the Hudson Bav Company’s supply ship Bay I'.skii,n in Ctigava Bay, on July 23. was •old yesterday by tiie third officer. Mi Eric Turner, who reached Wallingford. Berkshire. II esaid : After the little ship had been sqneez.■(l in pack ice on her journey through ,i,o bay and inlets of the sub-Arctic she sprang a leak and sank. "While steaming in onon water tic l " :,. e was observed to bo closing in on the hip Fverv effort was made to get ■avay. lint she was eventually caught ' (>twoon to immense floes and crushed ike a matchbox. Before sinking the ship was able to -mid out an SO.S.. which was picked |, v the Hudson Bav Company’s stun Vascopie. This vessel. fortunately. -vas only 159 miles away. The (row of the Bay Eskimo (48) including two women missionaries, had * , take to the boats, but owing to the Held ice wore unable to remain in the boats as there was a likelihood ot the -mall craft being also crushed. They -11 bad. therefore, to eneanin on an ice Hoc. and remained there for ‘-4 hours bitter cold rain until the arrival of •ho Vnsconio. the crew of which took •hmn to Port Burwoll. a trading post in F.igava Bay. Here, owing to the necessity of getting farther north with -imps for the Hudson Bay Company * other posts before the ice closed in the Nascopie had to leave them fot three weeks, pending the arrival ot another ship, to which a wireless messages had been sent. Through lack of stores, the crew had to subsist upon cod, which they caught in frozen waters. The Bay Eskimo left Montreal on Julv 7 with food, medicine, luxuries and merchandise to meet the needs ot the trappers, fur traders, company agents, missionaries, and Eskimos.