Mishap to the Takapua.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 98, 21 March 1884, Page 3

Mishap to the Takapua.

My stenoua I Occurrence. r . p^qullar telegranv iwas m yesterday's issue with're•ference tompiQ uauxpjajiaed.dania'ge^o «t£e"s.s. Eakapuna. On erjquiry we (Post)iftyd. the facts to_becs^i followJr-i-When tfche Takapuna arrived At, EortaC^lobers «m^ne discontinua^pe of the - costal expraßß service it was decided to dock her s(^mm.as J;he gjraylag^dpck-^ffas-utarilr able! THis has recently. b.een done, with the un^'iiJodtied /resji\fc itbat the steamer's bottom v waa t exposed to Tiew it at once Bcftame apparent that she had been r on shove sonvew^erg; %nd had sustaine'd'sdrn^'rathe'r "serious" injuries. Her. ked -. „yas . twisted i «.n^li crafcJKed, plates, ,ftear I^ef scre l^'. iipei|uTO v ''\v'ere ! ,.'muc^ .cr^cked^ de^ieW, aiina otliermse t d^ji)agf4>» v^e, : tatuSHif; of Ihed^jnagey'wg^ prflb^^ Dot' o6*knovv'n onjoqa.rsj aj\afly; leakage , tbrbuah"^tse 'jw/f^ t> pjfiy,,hbrfi;. fo^iia7ts. . waj^intp t! the ballast ( taukH and'^Ould not' have efltected an entrance in^p the ship herself, the faka puna •was never reported either, by.heg pacersor .her passengers, as having , , even , totfdned anywhere, anjd/as, the, .contapt . ■whicli'did' so mucK rnischie^ jnust, .hftYe. been pretty sharp, it is a complete mysterj when qr> wii'ere^ba coiild^Have struck. Qne;-..tbeoigr«ip'dini»- -W the Manukau, another to some point, towards Cape Egmontj^ntl iJ ai!(o ; Wer"to ; a rock near Terawhiti, but all this is pure conjecture, jflrtnat is definitely known as yet is that the steamer must hay© s^rucjk iu^oniewherjßii andiixathcr sev^j-ely^toß,; \Qn tho feints ihecoinib^ known, instructions .wem- issued for an investigation to be held, with a view of eliciting all particulars relating/to this* eiuicular affair. ,;, v . ; i.;.;^