THE OVERDUE MONOWAI.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3772, 14 September 1907, Page 3

THE OVERDUE MONOWAI.

No Tidings. ‘ Wellington, To-day. Anxiety regarding the whereabouts of the steamer Monowai, which should have arrived at Sydney on Tuesday afternoon from Wellington, increased yesterday as the day passed without any tidings of the missing vessel. H.M.S. Challenger, which left Jervis Bay (about ninety miles south of on Monday for Auckland, passed Cape Maria at 11,30 o’clock yesterday morning, and made no signal concerning the Monowai. The Victoria, which left Auckland on Monday, arrived at Sydney at 9 o’clock last night without having seen the overdue vessel. The Miowera, which left Wellington at 4.20 p.m. yesterday for Sydney, will keep a sharp look out. A message from Dunedin states that the general manager of the Union Company is satisfied that the Monowai will be picked up within three days, and that the delay is due to a mishap to the machinery. Five steamers —the Kaiapoi, Wakatipu, Hero, Terawhiti, and Miowera—-are on the look out. The Manuka leaves Sydney to-day for Wellington in the Monowai’s place, the Miowera taking up the Manuka’s running in the Sydney-Auckland service. The Monowai, a steel-screw steamer, was built in 1890 by W. Denny Bros., Dumbarton, which firm also manufactured the engines. Her length is 330 ft, depth 42ft 2in, beam 24ft Sin.