Samoan Affairs
(PSB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, April 26. The steamer Mawhera arrived from Tonga and Samoa to-day, bringing advice s from Apia to the 17th inst. The harbour of Apia shows numerous traces of the . effects of the hurricane. On a reef the Adler is lying, on her broadside with her decks facing the store. v v he is not seriously damaged and .could be floated off if the necessary appliances were at hand. Tbe^nited States ships Trenton and Vandalia are lying Bide by side as they Bank, and there is no chance of floating either of them. The remains of the Eber are scattered about, the larger portion being under the reef where she sank.. Very few bodies have come ashore, and native divers say that a great many are entangled iv the wreck.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 125, 27 April 1889, Page 2
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