Wreck of tho s.s. Muritai.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, 29 May 1908, Page 2

Wreck of tho s.s. Muritai.

Theta was more than a lit tie excitement in Kawhia on Wednesday night, when news arrived that the s.s. Mari tai had been wrecked. Tho commotion was occasioned through the report being circulated that the vessel had struck on the same reef as the ill-fated Kia Ora did, whilst on her way to load flax at Nukahaker i. This ramoar t was doubted, some of the residents knowing that the Muritai was on the East Coast. On Thursday morning, the Sbttlek received information that the place where the steamer had met her doom was on one of the Hen and Chicken Islands, off Whangarei, and although the steamer was a total wreck no lives had bean lost.

The Muritai was well known here, which port she visited on many occasions, more particularly jast after the Kia Oca wreck, when for seme weeks she ran regularly—in fact, the survivors of the Kia Ora were taken away by her. Although, an old boat, the loss to the company is a heavy one.