On the Sea.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 11, 31 August 1914, Page 3

On the Sea.

Merchantmen Sunk,

BRITISH CEREAL SHIPS IN THE DARDANELLES.

[By Electric Telegraph-Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, August 29. Tn response to energetic representations, the British cereal ships which were detained in the Dardanelles have been permitted to enter the Mediterranean.

THE KAIPARA AMONG THE NUMBER.

[United Press Association.] London, August 29,

The Daily Chronicle reports that the Kaiser Wilhelm sank the Kaipara,

Tuhalcain, and Nyanga. The crews word landed at Las Palmas.

Official news states that the whole of the Kaipara’s crew is at Las Pal-

mas. (Las Palmas is the principal town of ’the Canary Islands.)

Under ordinary circumstances, if the Kaipara left Monte Video on the Ist instant, she should have arrived at Home last Saturday (says the New Zealand Times). The vessel loaded for West of England ports at Wellington, Bluff, Waitara, Lyttelton and Dunedin, and left Lyttelton on July 11 for Avonmouth, via Las Palmas and Monte Video, The Kaipara was loaded under the auspices of the Fed-eral-Shire line, the New Zealand and African company being the local agents.

Captain H. Makepeace, who was in comamnd of the Kaipara, had the following officers:—Messrs H. J. Wilde, chief; H. T. Fell, second; D. Paterson, third; W. K. Fowler, fourth. Mr F. Marshall was chief engineer, with Messrs W. Smith, W. Morris, R. Williamson, C. Park, and H. Sommerville, as second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth respectively. Mr G. Jones is chief refrigerator, and Mr H. Ballock second. Dr. Mcßae was surgeon, Mr F. S. Shrimpton wireless operator, and Mr J. M. Kebblewhite (late Rotorua) chief steward. The vessel took no passengers from New Zealand.

The Kaipara was owned by the New Zealand Shipping Company, and was a vessel of 7392 tons, built in 1903 at Glasgow by John Brown and Co. She was 4GO feet long, 58 feet beam, and 31 feet depth. RUSSIAN PASSENGER STEAMER DESTROYED BY MINE. St. Petersburg, August 29. A local passenger steamer was destroyed by a mine at Otchakoff. The bulk of her people were rescued, but 54 passengers were drowned.

RETALIATING MEASURES THREATENED. .

Times and Sydney Sun Services London, August 29

The Times’ naval correspondent, commenting on the Germans’ indiscriminate mine-sowing, says that if the action is pursued it may be necessary to take retaliatory measures.