A UNION STEAMER ASHORE

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7782, 30 October 1886, Page 4

A UNION STEAMER ASHORE

THE PASSENGERS THE VESSEL EXPECTED m * A WRECK. ° BE °OM2 [by telegraph—pres., ( ' RE *MoCi a p.' l ' The Union Company's as ' "wj. ashore at North Beach, j j.-j,, ii North Mole. She had taken ,bore to eight this morning, three W a ' )011 ' tide, and was on her way i a 'L ore high mischance not yet known, the tun was in the channel at ft• teit is supposed that the Ma\»W and after she got aground the broke. The weather was fi tte J?* 'Pe« quite smooth at the time. danger to passengers there Win! 13 no whatever. The Mawhera lies n,, I Do !ei the North Mole than the Walljbi, " #W "

LATER, The Mawhera is now high and j,, , 30 yards above the North Mole, it i ,l! tons of cargo for <:»reymouth havf v, 5 landed and placed in the Cnstom.' 61. Over 50 tons for Hokitika still cs k! !' The vessel is considerably bogged a Jfloors and deck bulging up in tL This is the effect of her resting for I®?' to-day with her midship, upon a basJ shingle, while her bow and stern were wo,t mg free. It is therefore not thought oroh,M that she will be launched again, asL 9 dition is sure to become worse The™'' sengers were landed dry shod this iftJH' The insurance is not known. L The Mawhera is an almost new vessel, having beeo built of iron at Paisley in Km She is of 554, gross. and 340 net tonU ,5 her engines are of 75 horse-power, Form, time the steamer was employ.,) in °. Melbourne and . Fiji branch of the Union Company's -trade, and was withdrawn to give place to a larger vessel. Since then she : uas been employed in the coastal t:ada of the South Island.] •