25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 96, 17 January 1935, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Home Boat Ashore (From "The Dominion,” January 15, 1910.) Auckland shipping circles were thrown into something like consternation yesterday afternoon when a rumour circulated that the New Zealand Shipping Company’s fine steamer Kaipara, which had left about half-past two for London, laden with a large cargo, had met with a mishap in the Rangitoto Channel, and was in a serious condition. Gradually the rumour was confirmed, and the fact became known that the vessel had struck something' in the channel and that her position was serious, and that there was a good deal of water in two of her foreward holds. The vessel now lies in the channel, her keel resting' on the bottom and some feet of water <n No. 1 and No. 2 holds. »” . > The iron steamer Czarina, 1046 tons gross, owned by the .Southern Pacific Trading Company, of San Francisco, and built in 18S3, has been wrecked at Cook’s Bay, Canada. 'l'hc crew clambered to the rigging, but were swept off, 30 persons being drowned. The disaster was witnessed by about a hundred spectators on shore, who were powerless to render assistance. * * * A fire in Evans’s drapery stores at Kilburn (a London suburb) caused damage estimated at £lOO.OOO. The cause was the fusing of an electric wire in a window filled with underclothing. Ten shops were destroyed.