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(BY TEi,B.»KAPH; (united press association.) Wellington/ Tois Day. , The New Zealand .-shipping Company have received the follow! a g message : — London telegrams ■ of Saturday report sailing of the Waitara for your port, and fluruntri for Otago. -- To-day 'ire: are cabled that the Waitara has been m collision and sank by the HurunuiJ Twenty-Eve lives were lost. The latter vessel pat back to discharge a_d deck. •■...-■■ - _Later t Mr Gibbs, of ths New Zealand Shipping Company, has received a cable advide of the collision of the Wailara and Hurunui, of the sailing; of which he had received a cable datei June 21. The Waitara sank, Sxteen of her passengers and crew were saved, in* clading the master, chief officer, and apprentice Wcrseley. Twenty-five of the passengers and crew> with appren* tice Cotterill, were drowned. The I Hnrnnui pnt back, and will have to discharge and dock. She was bo and for Port ChalmetP, with a fall cargo. The Waitara was for Wellington, also with a fall cargo. It is not known who the officers were, as, siace the establishment of the line of steamers, changes have been very frequent.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 172, 26 June 1883, Page 2
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190FURTHER PARTICULARS. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 172, 26 June 1883, Page 2
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