THE STEAMER WOOTTON.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 285, 5 June 1909, Page 5

THE STEAMER WOOTTON.

rPRESS ASBOOIATION.I QHRISTOHUR.OH, last night. The steamer Wootton, which was picked up in Cook's Straits on Wed^ ' nesday night by the steamer Blen-,-heim, being in a disabled condition, I and had to be let ; go about eight niiles I south of Pencarrow Head at 7 o'clock yesterday morning in a heavy north- ' Avest gale, was signalled at Lyttelton this afternoon. Two steamers — the [ Holmdale from Gisborrie and the Wootton — were reported, and, it was at first thought that the Holmdale ' had the Wootton in tow. At, 3.30 1 p.m., however, 'the signalman at the lighthouse saw that til's Wootton was about a mile and a. half from, the heads and was coming along on her own engines, the Holmdale. being -about ,a- mile astern of the Wootton.