THE STAR OF CANADA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 45, 21 February 1913, Page 7

THE STAR OF CANADA.

RE-FLOAT! NO A BAN i )ON ED. . (Per Press Association.) Gisborne, February 19. •Messrs ~'Langlands and Co., after duo deliberation, have decided to abandon their attempt to refloat the Star of Canada, but will forthwith “skin” the vessel of everything of value that it is possible to take at reasonable cost. Negotiations have been pending with a Wellington engineering firm which proposed to undertake the contract of re-floating the vessel and replacing her in Port Chalmers dock, but the deal was not completed, and will now go no further. At a rough estimate, it is considered that to refloat and refit the Star of Canada to anything approaching her original condition would cost £30,000, and the venture being one in which the issues are uncertain, the amount named is held to bo rattier a “tall” sum to leave on the scales of speculation. Langlands has a twelve and a ten-inch centrifugal pump ready for use on the steamer, and lias secured an old locomotive boiler from the Public Works and an engine to provide the power. The steamer, it is said, can bo pumped dry in about 12 hours’ time. The engine-room will bo deplenished of any article of value which can bo handled with the power available, and it is anticipated that 12,000 tons of coal will be got from the bottom of the steamer.