THE LATE COLLISION BETWEEN THE 'TAURANGA' AND 'ENTERPRISE.'

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 174, 30 July 1870, Page 2

THE LATE COLLISION BETWEEN THE 'TAURANGA' AND 'ENTERPRISE.'

ARRIVAL OF THE 'SAM.ON".'

FROM HIE BAT,

Supposed Loss of the' Tauranga/ with all hands.

The s.s. Samson has just arrived in harbour. "We are indebted to Mr. W. J* Hurst for the following particu'ars : —

Often us it has been our duty lo chronicle single instances of loss of a painful character, never before have we had the melancholy (ask imposed upon us to present to our readers such mournful intelligence as that just brought to hand by the arrival of the Samson, t o far as we can learn at present there is not a ray of hope tl at a single soul lives to toil the tale of the loss of the favour.... steamship 'J auranga, commanded by Captain J.. Boiger. Born at the Bay, and son of the well-known pilot there, he, young, experienced, amiable, and ] opular in the extreme That fine steamer stai-ted/or the Bay on Saturday last, and somewhere about the Sail Rock, evidently lun into and sunk by the schooner Enterprise. Captain Boiger lias spent his life ia trading between this place and the Bay, and his efforts were ably sc.ond-d by Mr. Munal, brother-in-law of our reepee'ed townsman Mr. Fraser, of Frascr & Tinne. "Whilst the engine department, manufactured by the way by that firm, was under the control of a Mr. Harwood, whom we believe was acknowledged to be at the top of his profession, and who since his short sojourn amongst us has made him respected and beloved by all who came in contact with him. Captain Boiger was unmarried, but Mr. Munroe, and Mr. Harwood, and Win, Kuhn, the steward, Daveny (fireman), boides 'some others, have behind them wives and families to lament their untimely end. Never before has such deep sorrow visited the Bay. Our business is at a stand-still, and scarcely a dry eye is to be seen on the beach. In the presence of such awful saciifice of valuable life, we feel scarce at liberl}*" to offer a word of sympathy to the owners pn the loss of their property at a time too when they were beginning to reap the fruits of th-ir industry and perseverance, for it i.i seldom local efforts in this direction have been so skilfully managed as yield anything but los-j to the p omoters. The steamer was built about t.iiree years ago by Mr. Niccol, North Shore ; engine.*-, as b-d'ore mentioned, b}Fraser and 'i inne; comrnauded by a native, and owned by our fellow-citizens; and, notwiihstanding outside opposition, was regare'e I in the light (fa Buy institution. She paid a dividend of ten per cent, last March, and the shareholders were just beginning to look for another such payment, when her career is thus ruthlessly cut short. We yet cling to the hope that a boat with some of the crew may have reached some outlying spot, although we feai* not, as the agent and part owner, Mr. Hurst, immediately on receipt of intelligence leading to _ fear of the consr quei cc, went to ti.e Bay, and after a diligent search reports very unfavourably to anj T such hope.