A HARBOUR COLLISION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14691, 27 May 1911, Page 8

A HARBOUR COLLISION.

FERRY BOAT AND LINER,

[BY TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington,. Friday. A mishap occurred in the harbour at 7.30 o'clock this morning off Point Hals well, when the ferry steamer .Admiral collided with the big Tyser liner Niwaru, under the command of Captain Compton. The Niwaru was proceeding to Timaru, and the ferry .steamer, which' was on her way to Day's Bay. was running parallel to her on the inside course. . When off.the point the Admiral, in order to shape her coursa for the bay, tried to get clear of the bigger vessel, and in doing so struck the XiwJiru about amidships on Iter starboard side. "Neither vessel was much damaged.

The collision. according io the captain of Ihe liner, was little more than :i "graze." At the point where she struck, tie Niwaru's plates were, it i' said, slightly dented. The Admiral put "back to port, and from a cursory examination, it was found that her injuries weiO apparently nothing more than a flattening of her false stem. It was the bow of the vessel that stunk the Niwaiu. Captain Williams was in eomniai'id , the Admiral, and his version of the atiat is that the liner rounded Point Hals" rather closer than is usual for big boa The Admiral was slowed down when ju. outside of the buov, and she was bioti£, up to allow the Ni warn to pass her l>ow". It was while endeavouring to execute ti.is movement, which involved the jurmiiL, her head, that the collision occurs(j- .. , Niwaru returned to the stieam. ami gl again at 12.30 p.m. for '1 imaiu.