THE WRECKAGE AT WAITARA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9146, 13 March 1893, Page 5

THE WRECKAGE AT WAITARA.

[M TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] New Plymouth, Saturday. No more wreckage has been found in any way connected with that supposed to belong to the Gowanburn. The steamer Waitara returned from her search. Mr. J. E, Elliot, chairman of the Waitara Harbour Board, who wont on her, states that they coasted up as far as Albatross Point, keeping close in shore, and making a careful survey all the way, but no wreckage could be seen. Mr. Elliot is of opinion that the vessel was driven out of her course, and that whilst in proximity to this coast had her decks swept. He considers that if the vessel was wrecked there would be a large quantity of wreckage all along the b»ach. [On her way up from Wellington to the Manukau, on Saturday evening, the Government steamer Hinemoa steamed all round Gan net Island, which is situated near Kawhia and Aotea harbours, in order to seo if there was anything in the way of wreckage cast up on the rocks at that place. The weather was very thick during tho time, and a bright look-out was kept from the steamer, but nothing in the way of wreckage could be discerned. The Hinemoa loft the Manukau on Saturday night, to make a thorough search of the island and the surrounding coast. It will probably turn out that the Gowanburn had nor decks swept in the recent heavy weather when off the Worth Cape, and the wreckage has been swept down the coast by the winds and waves.]