A BROKEN TAIL-SHAFT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 22, 18 May 1914, Page 5

A BROKEN TAIL-SHAFT.

THE CAIRNHILL DISABLED. [Bt Eleotbio Telegbaph—COP* RIGHT j [United Pbess Amooiation.] Sydney, May 17. The steamer Prinz Sigismund brought a portion of the crew of the tramp steamer Cairnhill from the Bismarck Archipelago. The Cairnhill left Maura Island on March 27 for Germany. When four days out, the tail-shaft broke. For nine days the engineers made unavailing attempts to repair it, and it was decided to send a boat to Rabaul, in German New Guinea, for assistance. Three boats, in charge repectively of the chief and third mates and the boatswain, containing twentyfour men, including nineteen Chinese firemen, departed, leaving Captain Moodle, the second mate, the chief and fourth engineers, and the chief steward aboard. The Cairnhill's boats met a severe storm, and separated. After being buffeted for over a week, and suffering much from -exposure and shortage of water and food, they all reached Rabaul, where, the Chinese and the chief mate will remain to assist in, the search for the Cairnhill, which, when the boats left heivpn April, 9 ; was 150 miles northf'of New Mecklenburg. Steamers sent from Rabaul returned from an unsuccessful ten' days' search. HUNTING FOR THE VESSEL. THE CAPTAIN'S COMPANIONS. (Received 9.45 a.m.) Sydney, May 18. It is believed that the Cairn Hill is drifting in the direction of the Solomon Islands. ' With the captain are the engineers Maxwell and Angus, the second officer Mclver, and the chief steward SStigilie.