LATE SKIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 14496, 22 February 1911, Page 4

LATE SKIPPING

KXKrHT OF THE GARTER. BTC- IiEPAIRIXG JOB. Tho surveyors were .‘Jill engaged to-day computing llii' extent, of tin) damage to the Knight of the Garter and the amount of repairs that will bo necessary. 'ihe survey •earaK.t, be completed until the cargo is removed. no t-hat the vense-l e:n: he thoroughly examined inside, in addition to the ins peel ion made from the outside, r i he damage is extensive, and nearly approaches ‘•disablement.” 'the rudder,which is bent about 2ft from the perpendicular, was left suspended on tho two top pintles only, and had there been occasion to put the helm hard, over while Dm propeller was revolving at full speed the Knight of the Garter would probably have arrived here minus her t udder. The* repair#; to the stern frame, of which the rudder poet, tonus ,a. portion, will take about- five, tons of iron, and the forge at Port (.’hnlmors js said to be Urn only one in the Dominion that can deal with jobs of sneh dimensions. Before the stern frame i,s started the propeller and propeller shaft will require to bo removed. Jhe tips ol the bronze propeller blades were folded bank by tho impact like Die folding of a sheet of paper. The repairs to the ho) loin ewe exported to lake upwards of fifty plates, and will doubtless include the straight cuing of a number of frames. Amidships, at. tho wake of No. 7> hatch, tho herd is buckled. The significance of ihin in observable inside the bold, where the tip of the ballast, lank, or cloiD'l., bottom, is bulged upwards. The forcing upwards of the vessels bottom has bumf, the iron plates of a, bulkhead, and also tho Don ladder between, the keelsmi to the orlop deck. The damage to Dm vessel's bottom, excepting the damaged slernpont, l.s said to exceed the dam ago sustained by the Ulimaroa at Quarantine Island about, two years ago. The holes in the bojlom were being plugged up to-day in readiness for her coming out of dock. The cargo will be removed, and probably transferred to tho Oran, which '.vent .'■‘otilh ye.-techy for the Bluff portion of Die Knight of Die Garter's loading, or it may bo put on the Tbucariro, which calls here early next, week. A portion of the wool and flax in No. 5 hold must he saturated, for water was this morning still running out- through tho fractured plaice.. Tenders will be called for repairing the- damaged ship. SHUT TNG TvILEGBAMS.

LYTTELTON, February 22.-8.35 a.m., Mararoa, from Wellington feonnectcd with the seoond express'!.—lo.3o a.in., ?\lonoxva i, from Dunedin.—Noon, Dart ford, trninimr ship, from Newcastle.—l2.3s p.in., Kumar,;, for Dunedin. AUCKLAND. February 22,—Tofua, from Svdnev and South Ft,a Islands. WELLINGTON, February 22.—1.25 p.m., Ulimaroa, from Dunedin.