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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VI, Issue 1172, 19 November 1885, Page 2

THE STEAMER COLLISION.

BLENHEIM, November 18. Further particulars re . the collision show that the steamers met at Harding's bendrjthe. narrowest part of the river. iThV«f?haka:Jwas late on the tide, and the YvaifiT had no reason to expect her. '.Tber captain ur^ettclrrrgWßliwaß Jifcililr respective wheel, and a proper look-out war'lrtfiftU Bnt neither saw eaoh other until- cloje— tpg^tberrwhenrtfe^fflgii^ 'ytokT reyerwa. ' lie ftofiatofc raffm five Jninjaftgia^dlotbiiigie visible bat her masts and three feet of fnnriefa-Thft Mohaka'a-crew got qn jboard|the Wiuhi tad^tfirnbo? . to I BMVe^L {Neither. thaS-i? wasa^pure' lecident, caused by the willows preventing one seeing the, other tjll::too?late) toii&void a colUsiobM Both captains asked the river pbard at last , meeting j,w . f cJEear^.^^ river, to the navigation of which great complaints hate been' niade for years, and the board intenddd>tcr enfonie-itp (powers hhder tbe Act by giving the owners fourteen days to r^at; -the , wjHows-; } Oaptgin ] Ifanning was in charge of' the' Waihi, and Captain Reckford of the, Mphaka, > The Mohaka was>sjit f etf f6V Vs S46O 'in s ;tal iVictoria office^ cargo': was 'covered bj a floating policy. The cargo ooisiiU of wpo^ tdOtow, stnd:tba«ilß. i obßtrncte .tbja r navigation,, and mnat be. remoyed; buWis'd6tibtftil ifitlwlft^a^ to. raise her '& a*Bpecnlation^ Reokford estimates his i<Mß;at £500. \