THE SS. TARARUA ASHORE
+ • funitid pbxss association. 1 Ikvsbcabqili., This Dat. News has just reached town that the s.b. Tararna struck on the Otara or Waipapapa Reef, near Toitoia. All lives wore savod. At present the vessel is close in Bhore. Latbb. The s.B. Hawea, with Mr, Mills (general manager of the Union Company), and Cap* tains Cameron and Eussell, procoeda at four this afternoon to the Boon* of the wreck. The Tesael is 35 miles from Wyndham, the nearest telegraph statian. A sailor swam to the shore with tho news. The steamer fi insured for J6 14,000— £9000 in London and .£5OOO in Colonial offices. [The Tararua left Port Chalmers, for Melbourne, via the Bluff and Hobarfc, last evening. fc>ho is owned by the Union Steamsliip Company, and commanded by Captain Garrard. Her register ia 563 tons. She was conveying the out-^oing Snez mail, with which blio left Wellington on Monday last. The reef on whitfh the Tararna Btruek lies out from Waipapapa Point, the extreme sonth-eastorn corner of the South Island. It is situated about 30 miles north of the Bluff, and nearly midway betwoen the latter and Chasland's Mistake, on whioh the s.B. Otago was wrecked. Tho b.s. Hawoa has loft Port Chalmers to go to tho assistance of the Tararua. J
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Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 99, 29 April 1881, Page 2
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215THE SS. TARARUA ASHORE Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 99, 29 April 1881, Page 2
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