THE HAWEA ASHORE. NO HOPE OF SAVING THE VESSEL. PASSENGERS AND CREW SAVED. A PECULIAR ACCIDENT. NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 272, 13 June 1888, Page 2

THE HAWEA ASHORE. NO HOPE OF SAVING THE VESSEL. PASSENGERS AND CREW SAVED. A PECULIAR ACCIDENT. NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night.

The 1 1 aw en, wnflh pa^en^er-, from the Mauukaii, ttiTck whd'j enteiin s r Xeu P!\ mouth haihoui tliih morning. The \c--jf! i> now full ot watei Inning filled very rapidh, aii'l p'.e is m such a position that tIiOKM-3 no chance of hei oil. The ciew and pa^sen^c^ ha\e. all l<cvn landed m safety. The ilauea | left the anchorage at Onehun^a about noon on M<'mla\, iio-sod the bar about two houis latu-r, and animl (.IT Xsw Plunoutli bieak. water about midnight. >\n i anchoieil onf-me, and aliout half |ia«t fciv thi-s nionim^ 1 ho\e her anchoi' so as to conic into ilaibour and i*et alongside the whnif in time [or the tiain, as she had fonio j'a^^en^cis loi the c^pi o.srf. It was low water at the tune. Jh^ anchor when bein^ ho\e clipped of! i(s la^teniu^s and wns lost. Ail on bomdaie m;i\ reticent. According to accounts jecei\c<l hei< j , the ■lie, inier ihi'U pioceeded into Harbour to take up liit l*oi t it at the wharf, making (lie u^u.d detour ttnvard- shoie to do so While coining m, beloie <-1p turned to ikh thwe^t, she Mmck on the jiort side aft on what i> awimcd to be a lock, and .it tei ward's .stuck fast midway between (lit wh.ul an I '•Ikiic. During tho infill a he-. ivy tiom 2\ ', to X.\.\ had spurn" up, nml at the time she struck a LcjiM i oil wab coining in. The ll.iwc.i u .is \ . lined at ,£].'!, ()()(), and ua j < injured foi £:),OUO, m'z., £o,00() in the Colonial oflkv-, jtnd £2.000 in Ilotne offices. The Tjikiijuiiiii will jnoltiibly take up her luuuijif;. The )acehor-es Alleijio and At momer were on board. The tonuci was di<;wiu'd, but the latter hW.tm •isli<jie.