VATERLAND'S ADVENTURES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 162, 9 July 1914, Page 8

VATERLAND'S ADVENTURES.

AMAZING SCENES AT NEW YORE. The departure of the Vaterlniiii from Ne.v i York was accompanied by eveu more s-tnrlling- incidents than en her .irriv.il. when her giputtbr hulk l-.lo.keri traffic on fne Hadsoti River ferr over an hour. Wiih only two 1115= arrpnding her the world's Urges: steatner backed out of her slip under her own steam. Tlie dictum of the captain of another of the?» niodera levi,th»ns. -Yen .-an never :eli precisely what she w;:; de." in.stan:ly proved true. I As =rvon as the hew of ihe Varprland wns I clear of the de.-k she gnvp whr i- described | as "a onick rush," towa-d piers 50 .ip.ri S|. belonging 10 tho Morgan Lies. er. -he Not i Tork side er the river The action of her Inrmoiije ;-cnj ;;.e- rally sucked the water eir of -'-ie.-e -lins. breaking the moorings of 1 .v.-. steamer? Mho Elvalle and the TopSlM.. wlii-h were drawn ont. into the rive-, only to he instantly sea; back as the screws of The Tareriaoti went ' aliead. One barge filled with l.Tno tons of j coal overturned: and was sunk by a tuaiultnous wash, resembling a enmbinatiaa of Niagara Full? and the whlrlpor.) The Elvaile and Topilia dashed asainsr the pier bulkhead?, and damaged rheir sterns, while a dozen lighters in the vicinity bobbed like corks' «nd narrowly fcnnder'.r.g. ""nptain jTrcger, 'a '-ni-ge of rae Morg.i" F.prs. states thnt the Va-erland .-am? within three feet or the end of Tier No. M. ThValerian.! slowly Mimed h-r nose s-a-wirds and proceeded on her voyage. The damage to shipping In the port 1? ps-.lrnaied .it £6,000.