THE STRANDED CYRENA.
ROUGH WRATH EH DELAYS WORK. ■EXCITING INCIDENTAL INCIDENTS. (From C un Own CojtriKSPOxnENT.) V.'A NG ANT T, Juno 3. l! wit.- impossible vo altenipl 10 refloat the (Arena 10-dav owing to rough weather, but it is expected that Ihe steamer will be brought, into poll to-morrow. Two ox citing episodes occurred to-day. Mr Lovegrove, superintendent of the stevedores. was washed overboard from the lighter .Malta, but was ntirui tiloit.sly saved by grasping a rope which had also gone overhoa rd. The other incident concerned Mr Haszard, engineer to the Harbci.r Hoard, -who went out 250 vards cm a line to gel possession of a buoyed rope from the Cyretta. A i ery largo crowd of. people was assembled on tin beach, and the fact, the buoyed rope was put out from the (Arena gave rise to a report that the steamer was breaking up. 'this was very far o*V the mark, as the Cyrena, except, for a hole caused when she hit the obstritelion on the bar, is quite uninjured.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19497, 4 June 1925, Page 6
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173THE STRANDED CYRENA. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19497, 4 June 1925, Page 6
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