The Waikato.

Manawatu Herald, 14 September 1899, Page 2

The Waikato.

The barque Aalborg which signalled the disabled steamer Waikato early in August, arrived at Lyttelton from Hamburg on Tiie 1 -. day. Captain Clausen ha . supplied information respecting the disabled steamer, wbich h j spoke on Augu. ■ 3rd in latitude 89 -leg 12m in south, longitude 89 Jeg 18min east. He has showed the company a card on

lti-_i_Ml___-__-__l_______M which the chief officer of the steamer Mr E. G. To.RwiU, had written : — *• Stern shaft broken on June fith in latitud. 87d<g 80min south, long itude 21deg east, and we are now oio°ty-one days out from London." Referenoe to the Aalborg'a log shows that at about 980 p.m., on \ugust 2nd toe barque's people law flare-up lights being burned and rockets being desoharged. ~ They headed for the spot, and oame .cross the steamer, which was lying almost motionless. Tbe barque sailed within hailing distance. The steamer's people were asked if they wanted to be taken off. The captain of tbe Waikato replied in the negative. He said that the steamer's stern shaft was broken, and he asked the barque to stand by till daylight. The weather was squally during the early part of next day, but by 10 a.m. the barqne got withing hail again, and was then^wked by Captain Wetson' it the barque wonld take him in tow Captain Clausen replied that he would not. The chief officer, Mr Tosswill, went j aboard the barque in a boat and again asked if the vessel would take the steamer in tow. Captain Clausen explained that |ia oould not do so. At the chief offlo6ri requeat Captain Clausen supplied the steamer with biscuits, whioh was all in the way of stores that they required. Ha also indertook to post, npon his arrival to Lyttelton, a paokage of letters whioh Mr Tosswill had brought witb him. Mr Tosswill told Captain Olousen tbat the Waikato had drifted aboat a mile an hour on an average in a south and-east direction. When the barque left her the Waikato was going to the northward, and the barque met a southerly wind for five or six days after leaving her. The Aalborg sighted the barque Monalode on August 12th, and reported the speaking of the Waikato to her. Tbe letters brought by Captain Clausen from the Waikato are chiefly for London, few of them for New Zealand.