THE WRECK OF THE HAWEA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8210, 15 June 1888, Page 2

THE WRECK OF THE HAWEA.

(Per United Press Association.) New Plymouth, June 14. . The Hawea remrins in the same position. Captain Bendal!, who arrived from Wellington yesterday afternoon, is now making an examina- j tion of the versel. The general opinion is that I she can be cis'ly floated. The harbourmaster and the resident engineer tcout the idea of rocks behrj at the spot where (he Hawea is said to have struck. Captain Holford says that he has repeatedly sounded where the vessel ia said to have struck a rock, and could not fiud boulders or rock of any k'\)d. • He. s.>ys, also, that he is not sure that the Hawea did not strike her anchor. Shexwai drawing 12ft, and the chart shows 16ft to 17ft of water at the spot where she struck. The Hav/eJ, in coming up to the wharf, has frequently made a similar detour without mishap. . .'■ Wellington, June 14. A private telesrara received here from New Plymouth stat" that tho ste.imer is lying on a sandy and rocky {.rou'id, subnergcil to the pooprails at hi-<h 'wa1":-:, and that <be h?tc|Miw isn.waih at low wjtcc'She1 ii iisiae-HjtriS^iki-water, 70 fathoms from ' lie wharf,' and considerably sheltered. It h thoujht by experts that her bottom is seriously injure d, but lhat she can be floated off if .the condition. of her bottom on being surveyed werrant" tho expense of re-: covery and repairs. Divers will go up to ascertain that fact.. ' ' • ■ • • .