STEAMBOAT COLLISION AT KAWAU.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 118, 27 May 1885, Page 3

STEAMBOAT COLLISION AT KAWAU.

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, Gleaelg. In chaw of Captain T" Earned from (ho Kttwau at H Uiii> ■*J*rthaparp«eof-obtaining eot> irOlenelg W horn on Friday morn r*LforthepurpoEu 0 iinakinganotherat- " tt o floattho?.^. Macgrcgrr from llic iiS>V , Kawau . When efw arrived at (lie "*„ of wreckage, however, the weather J-ound to be unfavourable, and a very rt . o-hich was rolling provoiiieil am **3S being est.iii^e,!. Cn &ht lull took place, SW^ and Hchoojci Thornton woro towed from Bon S Harbour to the small bay in which tSepqror liw. Stormy weathor still ••mipd an-1 prevented citlior beins grithe'wrook, ,o that they .!»«H at anchor until yesterday "S Tbcn the woather modoratcil, J the'divors wore enabled to make n Skerfajpection of the Mnesrcffor below ilmter They reported that she was in mod condition as when they lirst ■M her, and that the only dainnces be scon wore on one side, where 1 vowel had boon cut down during ' collision. Tho 'Gnzollo and Fanny taton wero then towed alongside dmado fast, so that tho Mnegroßor « sanriwichod between them, anfl «• «rk of lashing the three vosso'a Lj v toirothsr was procooded with vigor--2f (Chains woro placed round tho So of the Macgroiror and made fast to Sifter vessels and largo spars wore yjd across tho decks of alt three. ugt tMs work v.n" completed, it wa» for tho Glonelg to return to wkUnd for a supply of coal and for Ijnaons, both having run out, but it was Jaded that everything would be in readiT^for lifting about r.oon today. Tho jjupt to float tho Macgregor is to be j, to-night, and we will probably have Sjutio" °f tho result to-morrow. The a_j. left for Kawau again this aftor(Sl