THE MAORI'S MISHAP.

Evening Star, Issue 4316, 27 December 1876, Page 4

THE MAORI'S MISHAP.

As the s.s. Maori was crossing the bar on Saturday morning last, she got ashore on the Northern Spit. The sea was rough, and the entrance intricate and difficult to get through. Captain Malcolm was getting along close to the Spit, and in a fair way of passing through the difficulties of the channel, when his vessel was struck by a heavy sea and driven on the shingle, where she lay, at the ebb of the tide, high and dry, but in a position of safety. It appears to have been reported at a distance that a serious casualty had occurred to the vessel, and telegrams to a worse effect even seem to have been circulated, for we received a message from Dunedin asking us to " send full particulars cf the wreck of the Maori." Fortunately, however, she sustained no injury whatever, and it is expected that she will be got off on the midnight tide, as every effort has been made with that object. All her cargo for this port was discharged on Saturday, and this will make a difference of at least two feet in her draft. Yesterday forty men were put on to remove the gravel from around her, on the river side, and they worked with a will all day, so that she tilted over on that side by the evening. Captain Malcolm and Captain Turnbull were unremitting in their exertions about the ship, day and night, since the mishap occurred.—' W. C. Times,' December 18.