PASSENGERS AND CREW SAFE.
VESSEL FULL OF WATER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Tuesday. The Union Steamship Company received information .this evening uhat the s.s. Waikare struck a rook in- Dusky bound at noon. The vessel is reported to be badly damaged, and the engiue-rooom and stoke-hole lull to the waters level. The vessel was beached on Stop Island, the passengers and crew being safely landeJ on the beach of the mainland. Arrangements are being made to dispatch the .Moura as early as possible tomorrow morning to the scene. The Union Company lost no time in communicating with the Prime Minister, now in Invercargill, and, ue a result, H.M.S. Pioneer, lying at Uie Bluff, is coaling to-night, and her commander hopes to get away to the scene by daylight to-morrow. The lighthouse keeper at Fuysegur Point has been signalled that the Rosamond, which is due at Bluff to-morrow, is to proceed to Dusky Sound to stand by the Waikare. An ample stock of supplies will be put on board the Moura.
Mr. Mclntyre, the company's works manager, will be a passenger by the Moura to inspect and consider what is to be done by way of salvage.
Wellington has been telegraphed to get the tug Terawhiti and salvage gear ready for to-morrow morning.
It is hoped that the Moura will be ready to proceed to Dusky Sound by eight o'clock to-morrow morning.
The Waikare had 150 passengers on board.
PASSENGERS AND CREW SAFE.
Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 4, 5 January 1910, Page 5
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