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Show SHACKLETON SAILS TO AID COMPANIONS DUX EDI N New- Zealand. Doc. 23. via London. 11 a. m. Sir Ernest Shackle ton. the explorer. Failed today from Port Chalmers tor the Antarctic on hoard hi? auxiliary ship, the Aurora, iu an effort to rescue the members of I his Antarctic expedition marooned near the Koss barrier. There are ten men in the party which the explorer will attempt to roach. Captain Cap-tain Mackintosh and nine of the crew of the Aurora. They had only a scanty supply of provisions pro-visions when tho Aurora broke a way in a blbzard twenty-one months aero, leaving leav-ing them stranded, and nothing has been heard from them since. |