A SENSATIONAL VOYAGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9065, 14 April 1908, Page 3

A SENSATIONAL VOYAGE.

ADVENTURES OF A CHINESE JUNK. News of the adventurous voyage of a Chinese junk, from San Francisco to Papeete, was brought by the steamer Manapouri, which arrived from Tahiti and Raratonga on Saturday evening. The vessel was the Whang Ho, a Chinese war' junk, which has been on exhibition along the Pacific Coast of the United States. She is owned by a syndicate in San Francisco, who intended exhibiting her on the Eastern Coast of the States. With tin's object in view a captain and crew were recured in San Francisco, and the Whang Ho was towed out of St. Francisco harbour, but the captain at the last moment resigned his command to the chief officer, Mr R. R. Grindley. The latter proceeded on his way, but the junk had next to no ballast. Wind j and sea took charge ot her; she , drifted further a-d further from her intended coursr, and finally arrived i off Papeete on 12th March, when she j was towed into port. The crew of the Whang Ho were found in a mutinous state. Salvage was claimed, and had to be agreed to for towing the junk into port. Captain Grindley is now waiting at Papaata for instructions from the owners. The Whang Ho is a very fi.ie specimen of her class. She was built at Shanghai.