STEAMER ASHORE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1926, Page 6

STEAMER ASHORE

mishap to,the MANAIA. BUMPING HEAVILY ON REEF, assistance sent to vessel Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Juno 11. . Advice was received at one o clock tliu morning that the Northern Company . steamer Manaia went ashore at Slipper Island when ou her way from Tauranga to Auckland. The vessel was hard and fast, but not in a danSe Ca l ptam S Norbury advised that he would be alright until this morning and asked for assistance. _ The Manaia left Tauranga at 8 p.m. and struck at 11.20 p.m. At 2.30 a.m. it was reported by wireless that the vessel was holding on to the reef with the propellers and that the passengers were still on board. The weather was squally and. the seas moderate, but the vessel was bumping heavily.

WELL UP ON REEF.

ANOTHER STEAMER ARRIVES. AUCKLAND, June 11. The Star’s Tairua correspondent wires that the Manaia is about one mile off Slipper Island, well up on the reef behind a small rocky island. V ne can see a two-masted scow standing b3 A Northern Company’s steamer arrived at 10.15 a.m. The Manaia was keeping steam' up, and the sea yas moderate. The weather was getting calmer, and was dull and cloudy, but clearing. Mr Cory Wright’s launch was on the way out. NAMES OF THE PASSENGERS. TAURANGA, June 11. The passengers on the Manaia are Messrs Johnston, E.yfe, Peters, Wilkinson, Harris X2), Cappei Kennev, Ludwig, Ciochfetto, Mackie 1, Hewlett, Sayer, Hille, Aitken, Jackson, “Patrick, Clark, Frost Fergusson, Canning, Graham, Stein, Beale, Lee, Jethro, Lock, Perry a, McKay, Benham", Meredith. Harrison, Masters, Dale (2). Mesdames * Begg, Avery, Perryii,' Abraham; Misses Abraham (3), Rich, McLeod, Brook, Bucknell, Stewart (2), Lully, Best, Scott, Pittaway, Stone and Laurance (2). RESCUING THE PASSENGERS. TWO BOATS GET AWAY SAFELY. WELLINGTON, June 11. Radio messages to the secretary of the General Post Office state that the steamer Ngapuhi was communicated with at three o’clock this morning. Bad weather was then coming up and the ship was making water fairly fast. About 60 passengers were aboard at 1.44 "this morning. A further radio message at 10.22 a.m. from the Manaia states: “The Ngapuhi is now taking the passengers off. Twa boats have got away safely.”