COASTAL STEAMER ASHORE.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15306, 20 February 1920, Page 5

COASTAL STEAMER ASHORE.

IN BAY OF PLENTY

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Opotlki, Feb. 19. "Hip steamer Ngatia-wa, wTien crossyui +.he hvv nj-. 5 o'clock last evening, "h^ome stranded on tne western spit. "Rffort" to refloat her were unsnecessfl""!. TWe vespnl is now almost hio;h and ■ftr-.- n+. low -n-nt^r. The mn^° TtTpsongprs ln^or] on flip bench last liiVht, but the fempiq ppssenszers are .still aboard, prrfiifinpr Iqtc- v-nter in daylight. Horses frw-ibe r.nr-os to-morrow were landed. T"ho N'yntinwa and another vessel had been similarly stranded previously.