THE WHANGAPE.
TAIL-SHAFT EFFORTS A FAILURE. (BY TM,SCRIPS—PBISS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Rec. October 9, 1 a.m.) Sydnoy, October 8. . Tho Union Company's steamer Tofua, which lias arrived from Samoa) reports that when she picked up tho Union Company's steamer Whangapo (which recently broke her tail-shaft in Fiji waters), the - Whangapo was absolutely helpless. At her rate of drift, five knots an hour, she would have run on the reef in sis- hours. After the failure of the attempts to fix the tail-shaft; sails wore used, but owing to thoir limited area they could not keep tho steamer to tho wind.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 323, 9 October 1908, Page 7
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98THE WHANGAPE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 323, 9 October 1908, Page 7
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