STEAMER HESKETH AGROUND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 254, 26 October 1899, Page 4

STEAMER HESKETH AGROUND.

APPARENTLY UNINJURED, i A WELLINGTON, October 26. j ' Tlie Chief Postmaster at Grey,! mouth wires to the head office that? the steamer Hesketh, of the Blacl;. 1 ball line, bound from Lyttelton wea' ashore early this morning, in broad daylight, on the Norfk Beach, sbifl distance north of where the s,|B Mapourika grounded. She appears?'" to be hanging on to the bank, and {M be uninjured, but she cannot be com.' munieated with, therefore the mails are still aboard. It is expected that she will be floated off at high tide ' as she is stem on to the beach, an|| the sea is fairly smooth. GKEVMOUTH. this day. The steamer Hesketh, in attempt, ing to take the bar this morning,.w^l struck with three heavy rollers, and went broadside on to the beach tivo hundred yards north of tlie Tin Head, where she now lies. She is" clear fore and aft. but hangs amid, ships on abank. It is thought that she will be got off at high tide. The Hesketh was very light, ami was coming in at half ebb. a strong cur. rent running in the river at the time, with nasty south-westerly set. [The Hesketh is one of the Net? Zealand Ship].ing Co.'s fleet, and fe under charter to the Blackball line, She is a twin-screw steel steamer of 640 tons gross register. She was built at Cork in ISS3, and has fo r some time been engaged in the coal trade from Westport and Grey month to Wellington and Lyttelton. She left Lyttelton for Greymouth on Tuesday last.]