WRECK OF THE TASMANIA.
The Rock Found.
By Telegraph.—Per Press Association.
NxriEß, This Day.
When the Woka went to try to recover the Tasmania's mails the sea was too rough to enable the work to be done, so the Captain determined to search for any rocks in the vicinity. A heavy bar of railway iron was slung crosswise over the stem and dragged along the bottom. When about threequarters of a mile from Table Cape and on a line just opening up Portland Island light, the drag met with an obstruction, which pulled the vessel up with a sharp tug. The rounding to of the vessel, however, released the drag, which was twisted all out of shape. The obstruction is believed to be a pinnacle rock, but the sea was ao rough that it could not be picked up again. Soundings round about showed only six to seven fathoms, whore seventeen are marked on the chart. This place is just inside the usual track of vessels. Two Government surveyors. Messrs Armstrong and Stevenson, remained behind at Whangawei in order to take advantage of the first spell of fine weather.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 532, 18 August 1897, Page 2
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