THE MONOWAI MISSING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 13 September 1907, Page 3

THE MONOWAI MISSING.

BELIEVED TO HAVE BROKKV DOWX. Per Press Association, •n.. »r . Welli "gton, Thursday. Jtr no * al > »«"* was due at Svd»ey on Tuesday, had not arrived at her destination early this morning. The VVunmera reports having passed the Monowai 500 miiet <nt from Svilne „ and all was well then. The Inion" Company surmises Hut the vessel must have broken down,<ind advises that the Kaiapol will be sent out this CVPllil) „ f „, m Sydney to look for the overdue steamer A Press Association nirss.gc received 19 S, 30 P ' m " froi " • s >' due }' s( at< s that at 12.30 p. m . there was no sign of the .Monowai.

NOT SIGHTED AT MIDXIUUT. Received Sept. 13, 1.20 am. A. in* • S - V,lw >'. September 12. At 11.30 p. m . ,the hour.of , : asin „ the Zealand cable) tiers was Wsign of the Monowai, overdue fr>.a Wellin--ton. ° The very strong westerlv hrjd winds which have prevailed for\..enl div* Way, it is thought, be aw..iintaMe 'for the delay, hut the Inion Companv. on the assumption that a mishap mavhave happened to th- machinery, has arranc-d to despatch the steamer Kaiapoi and the tugs Hero and Champion (the latter leaving from Newcastle) in search tomorrow morning. The Monowai was last reported bv the Wimmera, which sighted her on Monday «5 mil -s from Sydnev, then all well

SPECIAL TL'CS DESPATCHED IX SEARCH. Per Pre*s Association. Ellington, Last Xight. Considerable anxiety is felt here owing to the non-arrival of the Monowai at Sydney. The vessel left here at 4.45 o clock on Friday afternoon. The office™ of the Wimmera, which arrived here yesterday from Sydnev, sighted a steamer which they are morallv certain Was the Monowai, at 5 o'clock'on Monday morning. about jOO miles from Kvdney. The only reason of the Monowafs detention tl'at can be suggested is tint some missap has occurred. The Union Company's new ocean-going tug TeraWMti, which recently arrived from Home was ordered to-day to prepare to put to sea in quest of th» missing "earner. Coal-bunkering for a long voyage w M effected, and provisions for a month are being put aboard. This evening a crew of nineteen have signed on, and the Terawhiti is expected to get away by midnight. She is to speak Farewell Spit in the morning to ascertain whether news of the Monowai's safety has reached Xew Zealand; if not "5!J ,r^ eds . on th? U9Ual for about 900 miles, and will then zig-zag to Sydney. The Union Companv's Syd Bey office yesterday sent out a tug in •eareh, and the steamer Kaiapoi left Sydney this evening on a similar errand '

PLENTY OF PROVISIONS ABOARD. Dnnedin, List Night. In connection with the non-arriv.il of the Monowai at Sydney, .Mr. Holdsworth, general manager of the Union Company, state* that the eompanv has despatched the tug Terawhiti from' Wellington in search of the vessel, while instructions have been given for the tug Hero and the sj. Kaiapoi to leave Svd £7 ~ d y llß ft Inornin « on a «"■>"■• tor errand. AM the company's steamers Pawing to and from Svdnev and TasMMUft have been instructed "to keep an outside westerly course. The vessel's ordinary stock of provisions was sufficient to last until her return tn headquarters, and in addition she had a reserve supply sufficient to last three hundred persons for a month or more, while the cargo can be drawn on if necessarv to addition to the crew, the Monowai *as 67 saloon and 74 second-class passengers. '