BIG SEA RUNNING

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2180, 19 June 1914, Page 7

BIG SEA RUNNING

ON JWaUaH coast

STEAME& BADLY BATTEHE&

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By Telcsrttpii—Ptcbs AsHicHMirn-tapyridil CEcc. Jmte IS, 8.35 p.m.) Sydney, Juno 18. The gale continues. No steamers leftport yesterday evening. t Alter thirty-six hoivs of battling i» ■ tho storm, tiie Union steamer Wafcatipu retailed to jioi't lia.dly battered. Her rudder was broken, and her lifeboats and deck fittings wero smashed. During tiro storm a haby was born ■aboard. liie sailing vessels which ran aground in Newcastle harbour are still aground-, aiid have bean considerably damaged, A big sea is ru-iming aiid sliiirjiiag is sheltering.

■S'Lt HOURS OUT OF CONItOL. (Rce, June 18, 11.20 p.m.) • . Sydney, June IS. ' riio Wakatapu lind a trying &s;per'.i' ■ofite. Sor six lours s4ie waa out. of control, wallowing iii a tremendous sea, with great waves breiilciiig aboard. Mttch -water found its w-a.t into the cabins mi the stokehold. ISven-t-imfl.V l-iaud-gear Was figged, and she heat hot way back to .part. SMAtI< STEAMER WBHOKISD, Sytfiioy., Juno 18, The steamer Nftvelty, j!)4 tons, built at Auckland in 1909j has been wrecked at Late Maequarie Heads. AH frauds wei'e saved.