STEAMER WOOTON DISABLED AND MISSING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 460, 5 June 1909, Page 3

STEAMER WOOTON DISABLED AND MISSING.

BOUND FROM KAIAPOI TO FOXTON. Wellington, June 4. Capt. Watson, of the Blenheim, reports that he picked up the steamer Wooton disabled in Cook Straits. The Blenheim towed the Wooton to the vicinity of Cape Palliser and then had to let her go owing to shortness of coal. The Wooton had a sea anchor out when the Blenheim steamed away. The Wooton (Capt. Scott), is a wooden vessel of 150 tons, owned by the KaiapoL Shipping and Trading Co. The tug Duco left Wellington shortly after 2 o’clock and returned between 8 and 9 last night and reports having searched the coast line for 22 miles south of Pencar--row but saw no trace of the WOO-

Later. There are still no tidings of the missing steamer. The Marine Department is advised from Cape Campbell lighthouse that the Wooton passed there northward|on Wednesday. The Union Company’s tug Terawhiti left port this afternoon to search for her. It is blowing hard from the northward and a big sea is running in the Straits. SAFE ARRIVALWe received word'that the Wooton arrived safely at Lyttelton last night. The cause of the trouble was a breakdown in machinery. The Wooton left Kaiapoi on Tuesday for Foxton with a load of produce. She was to proceed from Foxton to Nydia Bay to load timber. ' She left Wellington last Thursday, after having undergone an overhaul by Messrs Cable and Co. She is a wooden vessel, built in 1900 at Cape Hawke, New South Wales, by Mr H. Miles- The vessel is owned by the Kaiapoi Shipping Company.