AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

RECORD STORM. MEW YORK, April 1. The heaviest storm experienced for many years is sweeping over Eastern Canada and the New England States. All the telegraph lines around Toronto and Montreal are down, and communication is blocked. Heavy snow has accompanied a seventy mile gale.

AN ATLANTIC RESCUE. NEW YORK. March 31

The Mauretania has wirelessed that the crew of the British freighter T/iTeham have been rescued from their helpless vessel by the steamer Shirvatia. .Slu> was bound for Falmouth, England.

The message did not state whether the 1/ideham had sunk or been abandoned.

WILKINS’ POLAR FLIGHT. NEW YORK, March 31

A telegram from Fairbanks, Alaska, says that the first "Wilkins airplane has left for Point Barrow, loaded with three thousand pounds of provisions. Wilkins is aboard ns navigator. This plane is the smelliest of those in the expedition. Probably it will he returning to Fairbanks to-morrow. NEW YORK, April 1.

A despatch from Fairbanks, Alaska, says that a radio from Wilkins reported that he had sighted Point Barrow at noon, and was flying north at the rate of one hundred miles an hour. WEST COASTER INCLUDED.

The Wilkins Polar expedition includes a West Coaster, word having been received by his relatives in Greymouth that Mr Anton (Tony) Anderson, formerly of Groymouth, and a native of Moonlight, joined the expedition as surveyor. For some years Mr Anderson has lwen residing in Alaska.,' in the far north-west of North America, so that he is already cpiite familiar with the Arctic regions. In all prolcability ho wifi now bo at Point Barrow at the northern tip of of Alaska. The advance party reached Point Barrow some days ago by a. land route, and the leaders party has just proceeded thither by aeroplane. Mr Anderson’s many friends will wish hint bon voyage and a safe return. He expects to make a lecture tour of the world on his return from the regions of snow and ice.