THE LATEST.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 138, 12 June 1888, Page 5

THE LATEST.

New Plymouth, this day.

One of the racehorses (Armourer) swam ashore, and it is believed will be all right in a few days. Allegro was drowned,

The Union Company are feeling the force of the old saying, "It never rains but it pours." Hardly three weeks ago their fine steamer Wainui ran ashore at Cape Palliser and had to be put on the slip. The barque Sophia Luhrs, owned by them, is now breaking up on the wild coast at the Kaipara Heads, and now the Hawea is a total wreck outside New Plymouth Harbour.

The s.s. Hawea is a sister steamer to the s.s. Taupo, the sensational expesiences of which and the total loss a few years back will doubtless be still fresh in our readers' memories. She is an iron screw steamer of 721 tons gross and 462 tons net tonnage, and has engines capable of registering 850 horse power. The Hawea was built by Messrs Denny and Co., at their shipbuilding yards, Dumbarton/ Scotland,

in 1875, to the order of the Union S.S. Company. She has been engaged for many years on the West Coast service, and tbis is the first time she has had a serious accident. Her gross length was 215 ft 7in -. breadth, 27ft 3in ; depth of hold, 14ft lin. For her size she was considered one of the handiest vessels of the company's fleet. Tbe Hawea is under the command of Captain Hansby, who is thoroughly well acquainted with the West Coast. She left the Manukau at 10 o'clock yesterday for the South, vial New Plymouth.