THE KAPITI DAMAGED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13791, 24 October 1908, Page 2

THE KAPITI DAMAGED.

Wellington, October 24. — On the last trip of the steamer Kapiti to Patea she struck a submerged object and. sprang a leak. She completed her voyage and returned to Wellington, Spon after midnight it was discovered .that she was leaking to such an, extent that she had to be beached at Pipitea Point, in the harbour. The exact -extent of the damage is not yet known. The Takapuna brought 130 tons of cargo from Onehunga this morning, including 460 pipes, etc., 424 bags of manure, 60 sacks of cement, 374 Dags of sugar, 75 sacks, 6JL- 100's. and 144 50's of flour, 135" cases of fruit, and 'so sacks of maize. <..-■-' The Kittawa arrived from Westport this morning with ■ 577 tons --of State coal for this port. She will leave for Onehunga. on Monday afternoon with the balance of her cargo of coal. The necessary permission for carrying the stranded Taviuni through the Westport breakwater has been granted by the Government. The vessel has to be moved some distance inshore yet, and will then have to be carried some 400 feet to the breakwater. About thirty men «re Tihe job, and it is hoped to rerlaunch^the. Taviuni on the next new moon spring tides. The Union. Companyis ship Dartford is to load timber at Kaipara for Melbourne. A gang of shipwrights and carpenters boarded 'the .vessel last week to overhaul- her rigging and spars. The ship will be re-fitted, so as to pass Lloyd's survey. As soon as she* has completed the discharge of her cargo of coal, a commencement, will be made in the work of . fitting her out as a training-ship. , The New. Zealand Shipping Company's s.s,. Paparoa- arrived, at Wellington this morning from Londori-./' > ■ The Union Company has in- its; employ some particularly sm.&irt; engineers. A striking case of their atnlity was the breaking-down of the Hawea. , Another case is that of the Kaituna, which was disabled recently and towed intj^jV^eptport. Two spare propeller blades from the Kaiapof were shipped from Greymouth by the Kini, arriving at Westport at midnight on Thursday. Work was immediately commenced to fit them on the Kaituna's shaft, and before noon on Friday the difficult job was successfully accomplished. The Corinthic left Capetown last Sunday evening in continuation of' her voyage from London to Wellington. She was two days late in leaving Plymouth, 'but picked up one day- on the-- run to the Caps.

The Rotoiti, which is to leave Wellington on Sunday for New Plymouth, will make a special call at Picton. The Patea Shipping Company's steamer Kapiti struck some submerged object off Terawhiti on Monday night, which has caused her to leak. She was to return to Wellington from Patea last night to go on the patent slip for repairs. A smart passage of forty days from Wellington to London was made by the Shaw, Savill; anti Albion steamer Mamari, which arrived at London on Tuesday morning. Tho Mamari called at Monte Video and Teneriffe.