WRECK OF A STEAMER.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 49, 20 September 1905, Page 3

WRECK OF A STEAMER.

Telegraph. Press Association Copyright Invebcargill, This Day. The coastal steamer Rose Casey, formerly well known m the Auckland trade, was stranded on the Riverton bar last night. When approaching the bar an accident happened to her machinery and she drifted on at 5 o'clock. Two hours later she sprang a leak, and the water rose, extinguishing the fires. A. heavy sea was now ranmng,and carried her a chain inside of the bar, and she now lies with about eight feet of water in the hold. There is no possibility of refloating her at present. She is owned by a company, and believed to be insured in Dunedin. She has 8000 feet of timber on board. The crew are on shore.