Wreck of the Hawea
IPBB USXXBD PBKBB ASSOCIATION.*! Wellington, This Day. The Union Company received the fol« lowing telegram this morning from New Pljmonth :— " Hawea struck a rock coming in this morning. Is now fall of water. Passengers all landed. See do ohaace of getting the ship off." I^ZZ Later. The Secretary oi the Post Office has received a telegram from Taranaki, statins; that the Hawea struck on a rock while entering the harbor this morning by keeping too far north. She now liog on her beam ends full of water. The mails were landed all dry. The 8.8. Hawea is valued at £13,000. Insured for £5000— £3000 in Colonial offices and £2000 at Home.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 134, 12 June 1888, Page 2
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