A Steamer out of her Course.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 170, 17 January 1895, Page 2

A Steamer out of her Course.

o (Per Press Association.) Wellington, January 16. Capt. Shaw, of the steamer Star of Victoria, which recently arrived from Sydney via Auckland, reports that the vessel left Sydney for Auckland on the 2nd of January, and encountered strong easterly winds and head seas to the New Zealand coast. The wind then moderated aud went to the north-east, accompanied by very thick weather and fo^s, but as the vessel came to the south-east the weather seemed to clear, the land being sighted on the starboard bow. Capt. Shaw was under the impression that it was the mainland, but it has since been proyed to have been the Great Barrier. As Capt. Shaw was unable to pick up Tiri Tiri, he stood out to sea, and took a fresh departure from Cuvier Island light Capt. Bhaw, after sighting the New Zealand coast, kept on the course usually followed. He gives as a reason for being nearly 30 miles to the eastward of his course that it is possible he may have kept the steamer a little further out than u^uil, and the strong current running through the Hauraki Gulf must have caught her on the starboard bow and pushed her still further out. In view of the recent Wairarapa disaster the above is of special interest