SHIPPING CASUALTIES
RANGING OF THE MANGAPAPA
MALL HOPES OF SALVAGE
WESTPORT, October 13. lb.e coasting steamer Mafigapapa , Karaniea Wharf on Thursday, Jjor-laden for Westport, and was mded on the South Spit, but got >ly back to the wharf. She left inJfSn Saturday, and was again mde<3 on the North Spit. -She was
ja safe place till Sunday, when a id -came down, ,cai-rying away her
>&, and the steamer was driven into breakers. Yesterday her holds and ;ine rom were flooded, and the w were compelled to. leaye the j, abandoning everything for the c being. It is feared the steamer be a complete wreck. Later. t was a heavy sea, not a flood, that ried away the Mangapapa's lines the rudder gave. Part of the vvarks was broken. The crew got mails and their personal effects ore at low water, he prospects of saving the steamer bad.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8966, 13 October 1914, Page 5
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