BARQUE ASHORE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17274, 15 September 1916, Page 4

BARQUE ASHORE.

MISHAP AT THE BLUFF.

[Per Press Association.] INTER CAR GILL. September 14. The barque Antiope stranded in Bluff harbour at 6 p.m. to-night. She was bound from Hobart to Dunedin with timber and scrap iron, and nearmg New encountered a hurricane, which strinped her sails. A signal for a tug was made at 4 p.m., and tho Harbour Board's tug managed to get) a line aboard, though it was too rough to transfer a pilot. Coming up the channel at half-tide * souall caught tho Antiope and swune her out of tha channel and she stranded inshore fron! the U<rht*hin. At at+prrpt will •bt mode to get'her off nt high tid«,