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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 77, 4 June 1866, Page 2

Wkeck of the Uraha. — On Wednesday, tiic 2nd ultimo, as the Clarence and Richmond Steam Navigation Company's steamship Urara, bound from Sydney to Graftou, was entering the Clarence Elver Heads, and. when, in the act of rounding the buoy her bows caught the ebb tide which was running out very strongly, and the vessel swung round on the reef, and struck heavily amidships, makiug a great hole under her boiler, and in a short time her engine-room and forward compartments became filled with water. * Steps were at once taken to provide for the safety of the passengers and crew, and a boat was despatched to Graftou for assistance. A number of horses which were on deck were cut adrift, and succeeded in reaching the shore. The vessel remained in the position in which she struck (her stern compartments being free from water) until ten o'clock that night, when a heavy swell set in from the eastward. She then filled aft, and her stern settled down in five fathoms of water; both funnels were in a short time washed away, and when the Company's steam-drogher Uloom arrived at the wreck, only the Urara's bows and masts were discernable above water. The cargo, an unusually large one, is an eutire loss, and no hopes are entertained of raising the vessel, which was totally uninsured, and, therefore, proves a serious loss to the company. — Sydney Mail.