Shipping Casualty.
(PEB UNITED. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) , ' : : .. Bluff, Thie Day;, ..... The Rotomahana just arrived. Twenfcf :•. minutes to four tbis morning she struck Waipapa Point, about the same place as the Tararua. She buc?ped several times and remained on the rocks about half an hour.. The- tide was three- . quarters "flood j the sea was smooth fortunately, and. as the tide made shefloated off and came on. She is making no water, but on examination the pro- ■ peller shows two blades carried away,, and two piece 3 broken off lire other blade. Cannot examine her bottom here, consequently she will return to Port Chalmers. She is at present discharging her cirgo, and will take notli*iing m. Very fine weather has boubt'es* preventei a repitition of the Tararua, disaster.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 204, 4 August 1883, Page 2
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