THE TYRONE WRECK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 27, 2 October 1913, Page 5

THE TYRONE WRECK.

FURTHER REINSURANCE. JEleotrio Telegraph—Cop fright] I United Press Association. l London, October 1. The Tyrone has been reinsured at a premium of 50 guineas. [Per Press Association.l Dunedin, October 1. A stiff nor’-easter ’ sprang up this morning and made the continuance of preliminary operations in connection with the attempt to refloat the Tyrone practically impossible. The tug Pluckj left Port Chalmers in the morning, towing a punt on which had been placed a 16-h.p. boiler and some other gear; but it was deemed inadvisable to proceed outside the heads, and the punt was accordingly moored at Harrington Point and the tug returned to Port Chalmers. It is hoped that the weather will have sufficiently moderated by to-morrow to enable operations tc be gone on with. The steamer Maitas, arriving to-morrow morning, is bringing a quantity of salvage gear, and the Terawhiti is expected to-night or early in the morning. The Harbor Board tug KopUtai, with several members of the Board and pther interested, gentlemen, went out to the scene of the disaster to-day. The vessel presented a rather desolate appearance, and sat as firm as a rock, and seemed either to be down at the bows or else resting on something very solid at the stern. The waves were washing up against her side and throwing spray on to the decks forward, but she stood immovable. The salvage party seenw to have a pretty stiff problem confronting it, but until the diver haf completed his survey there can be nothing more than conjecture as to the extent of the injuries.

THE LEGEND OF WAHINE. The Maori legend connected with Wahine Point, on which the Tyrone met her doom is one of the noblest connected with the Maori race. Briefly, Wahine Point is so called because a young Maori woman there committed suicide in the days of which tradition tells us. The tradition, which is couched in all the picturesque imagery of the Maori tongue, runs tp the , effect that the young lady in question was as beautiful as the glorious golden glow of the kowbai bloom; her smile enchanting as the moonlight rip pling on a mountain lake. Beneatli the subtle attraction of her persona! charms was a character fearless and firm, for she was a proud descendant of a warrior race.

One day the maiden wandered abroad, and some members of a hostile tribe endeavoured, to take her prisoner. She declined, however, to submit to the blandishments of an unwelcome lover, and resenting the proffered insult she broke from her captors and made a dash for liberty. But she was cut off from returning to her relatives and friends. Preferring death to dishonour, she ran downhill 1 ’to Wahine Point and leapt unhesitatingly from the beetling cliff. As her mangled body rolled down the rocks at the bottom of the cliff a kindly,wave came up from the sea, and her breathing body was quietly borne away to the subterranean palaces of majestic old Tangaroa, the God of the Ocean. That is the legend associated with Wahine Point.