FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5612, 24 August 1889, Page 3

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

A COLLIER RUNS INTO THE CENTENNIAL. CONSTERNATION AMONGST THE PASSENGERS. {Received August 21, 1.30 p.m.) Tho Centennial sailed for Auckland at nine o'clock hist night. Tho weather wan fine. Tho captain and second oilicor were on the bridge.* Off Bradlcy's Head, halfway down tho hnrbor, tho steam collier Kitnnhoolcti, inward bound, struck tho Centennial xtern on. There was terrible commotion among the passengers. In a few minutes, whoa the Kanahuoka got clear, they found a big hole in the bow of tho Centennial, and the. wuter was pouring in tho vessel. She was headed j tor the shore, but before reaching , shallow water the liree were put out, and the vessel wink in ten minutes. Immediately after tho collision tho boats worn lowered, and the passengers taken off. The crew were rescued by passing steamers. Tlie cook, who was in the forecastle at tho time of the collision, crawled through v hole and jumped into the set. The propeller of the Jiruuthooka struck his leg, breaking it and making a frightful gash. He was rescued and takon to the hospital. The passenger* and crew lout everything except what they stood up in. The officers of tho Centennial behaved splendidly. Tho vessel went down bow first, only the mastheads now appearing ahuve. the water. The following are- the names of the p;issengere :—MesHTrt Tobin, Lewis, Thomas, Arthur, Miehie, ITovvston, Thompson, Montgomery ('-'), Kierle, Johnston, Humphries, (lillespui, Walsh, I'itzpatriok ; MesdameH tiievivrigbt, Montgomery, Kierle; Misses Sievwright (-), Johnston (i). The captain of the Kauahooka asserts he was steering a right jourae. The etiuso is as yet uiihtatnd. The Kanahookii'ti bow was wrecked, and but for the watertight compartment she would have foundered. She has a hole six feot in circumference in her bow.