Total Wreck of the Tui
PASSENGERS & CREW SAVED.
THE VESSEL UNINSURED.
CARGO AND LUGGAGE LOST. pPBB UNITKD FBKBB ASSOCIATION.} Wrimngton, This Day. The steamer Tui, 55 . tons,; Captain.?Pope, left Wellington wharf "about midnight for Foxton, having on board the following passengers :— Mr and Mrs Odling, Miss Odling, Miss Irving, Mr A. Scott, Mr J. L. Clelland; and two others. About one o'clock, when the steamer was off Pencairow light-, house, she struck the reef, sinking in five minutes. The passengers and •• J crew succeeded in getting ashore at the Pilot Station in two boats belong* ing to the steamer, and were brought . into town at six tliis morning. ■ ,% Lateb. — The Tui .is valued at y £8,500, and is uninsured. Captain Pope states that the weather was very heavy at the time, aud he was unable to see the light. He is of opinion that the bottom is torn out of the vessel, as she was going 10 knots when shestruck, and if such had not been tiie case, the vessel, being built in comSartments, she would not have gone, own. The Tui carried a crew of six. The passengers, with one exception, ' have lost everything. The wreck of the Tui is lying in > Chaffer's Passage in the middle of the channel,, and in a line between Barrett's Reef and the meat seaward reef, 1 off Dorset Point.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 61, 2 November 1886, Page 2
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