NARROW ESCAPE OF THE TUI.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
WELLINGTON, This day.
The s.s. Tui, On her way from .Wanganui, touched on a rock inside Kapiti, and started some of her plates. She arrived safe, but some of her cargo was injured bj' water. The Tui sighted the ship Lady Jocelyn, for Wellington, from London, in the Straits. She signalled all well.
• Later Particulars. The Tui was from Foxton. She. left there on Saturday night. When in charge of the first officer, G. Balding, at 1 a.m. on Sunday morning, she struck on the passage rock inside Kapiti. Finding that she was making water, there being a foot in the hold, a sail was put under her bottom, and the vessel taken back under the island and a search made for the injury. Sixteen bales of wool, all wet, wore taken on deck and the hold pumped out. The damage was got at, and it was found to consist of a started butt and several rivets knocked out, about one plate beneath the water line. The leak was stopped with blankets and tallow, and the Tui came on here safely.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1132, 31 December 1883, Page 2
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