ECCENTRICITIES OF MANAKAU HARBOUR.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 605, 7 September 1909, Page 5

ECCENTRICITIES OF MANAKAU HARBOUR.

; (By, TuleeraDli;—Special, Correspondent.) ■ Auckland, >Soptsmbe;f 6,-: The cccentricitifes of .'tlio*. MahiiK&ii Harhour. aiid tho'channel'for,navigation purposes.-wore', '.exemplified' to' 'some,-;ostent-''yesterday./-Tho 'C'qnnna, .• steaming 1 - cautiously ut> .on. a;Jqyr. tide, - stuck j her ■ nose ;in,mud;-bank:isiear' Capo. Horn, and in '. .'spite, 'ofrxtlio/'hioat' strenuous clTo'rt-a on .tho'.'pa.H of 'ht>r oiigines . and'flrcw;;d<ielilicd ;to : go baclt- to. -Wdrk! :Mbnnwl»lb tho Rosamond showed along)" also bound up. stream, and found the fairway blocked. - So,. tow.Jinea- were got. out' J /and snapped, added to which th<v- iltosa'mbhd'S. bow got swung dowh'istrcam, by the'fviud.':ind: currcnt,-a with-never \ a hope, just:.,therb'.-bf jotting it bSck again. After.tho bucking -and jibbing had gone on for two or three hours,) tho : skipper of the - Rosamond' set off, .down ' ctrbani i tb/,inaiioeuyro v his boat for Ohbliunga': ;agaili, ' Soriiewhoro in tho vicinity.of Pupqnga Point hb'hfld.'.tb'vbyago to,find' enough water, .for. .this i purppsei;.-'and when ' about half-way, back-. to whore'/.hb 'had loft ''the', btber'-vessel' ho met'.her bo'uhd.oii> similar miSsioii.to'get tlie-ibbat 'turned* round.''. Both . liad -remarks to;ntaktf, about,the' Maiuikaii' and.-'its, diversities' when: they; exchanged' notes oh the Onehunga Wharf somewhat, later; in . the 'dayi.'/.'-v/V--... ' -;/ "://: r