A STEAMER ASHORE.
(Br ■IKLEGKAI'tf-tfBESaiiy^ATION,) ]; " ':'■" TiMiRD, March 9. The s'.s. Elginshire, a Horae-linor, due here from Oamaru this morning, is ashore at Normanby, nine miles south of Timaru. The Elginshire struck on a roef between 5 and G a,ni,, half a mile from ehore. A platelayer At Normanby states be beard (be whistle, when ho went to tho beacb and saw (he steamer heading for the shore, He sang out to her and told them where she was, and the steamer turned about; and appeure to bavo gono straight on tha reef, A tug was assisting tbo ebgines at high" tide, but at 11.30 a.m. there was not n move in her. The voßsel moves on the swell, and it it) staled she can be heard by those on ehoro grazing on the rocks.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 7170, 10 March 1892, Page 2
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134A STEAMER ASHORE. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 7170, 10 March 1892, Page 2
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