THE STRANDED VESSEL AT PORT WAIKATO.
[BY TSXEGKAFII. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Waidku, Saturday. The schooner "Willi -m ami Jane, sixty-nine tons, Captain Jones, lail-n with oati for the Waikato Company; Went ashore at Port Waikato bar on Thursday. She left Duuedin on Sunday afternoon, and was off the Waik.ito bar all day on Thursday. There was a little breeze in the afternoon, and ehe attempted to take the bir about a quarter past four pm. on that day. The tide was half ebb, and she got stuck on the bar. As she touched on her heel, slie.slewed broadside on, : there no: being much aea on the bar. She is injured very little, but having no steerage way on her she rolli d en to" the .north head, and struck heavily, the "sea breaking clean over her for live hours. She in making a little water. Had she not t been a strong vessel, sht; must hive gone 'to.pieceb. The captain expects to lighten her, and get her off shortly. _________.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6818, 24 September 1883, Page 5
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168THE STRANDED VESSEL AT PORT WAIKATO. New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6818, 24 September 1883, Page 5
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