The Tarawera in a Gale.
(P£B UNITED P BESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, This Day. The steamer Tarawera, which arrired here at 5 o'clock this morning from Napier after a passage of 41 hours, encountered very heary weather a strong S£. gale blowing. She left Napier at 12.15 on Sunday afternoon. On Sunday ' night, about ten o'clock, the steerage smoking room was struck by a sea and '" smashed to pieces, the end of thepnrseV* '• cabin was store in, and the fittings-eon- '" siderably damaged, the glass front of the ! Lighthouse on the port side, was driTen in by the sea, 'all the winch steam pipes Forward were torn from the decks, and ■ twisted in all shapes, and the forward ,. skylight store in. One of the electric ■ amps aud part of the wood work round ;he poop was carried away. The engines were kept slovr most of the passage* The.,, , ron plates coTenng the. steam .pipes were/ sroken into pieces. . . .
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 66, 6 November 1883, Page 2
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156The Tarawera in a Gale. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 66, 6 November 1883, Page 2
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